I missed that conversation. This is awesome, I love it; gimme the bits:)

+1

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Chris Muller <cmm at 4dst.com> wrote:

> I would like to integrate this elegant extension to the
> object-concatenation API.  Just as Exceptions may be easily
> concatenated with the #, (comma) selector, now any object may, as
> well:
>
>  object1, object2  --> "{ object1.  object2 }"
>
> and, equally, with other collections:
>
>  { object1.  object2 }, object3 --> "{ object1.  object2. object3 }"
>
> I find this particularly useful for user-interfaces that apply
> Smalltalk interpretation to user text input, that the user was able to
> write "lists" of items in a very terse and natural way rather than
> demanding curly-brace developer-syntax.
>
> I do not wish to reopen philosophical discussions; this is right
> in-line with the spirit of Squeak's other concatenation conveniences.
> There were no major objections when I proposed this a couple of months
> ago, and if that is still true, I would therefore like to go ahead and
> merge these 5 new methods into the trunk later this week.
>
>  - Chris
>
>


-- 
Casey Ransberger
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