On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

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> On 10.05.2012, at 13:34, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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> >
> > On 10.05.2012, at 13:25, H. Hirzel wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/10/12, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> >>> So it's not about dynamic arrays, but arrays created with the brace
> >>> syntax. And yes, that was introduced in Squeak.
> >>
> >> Any idea when and for which reason?
> >
> > Dan Ingalls, 1997: "Larry Tesler added the Curly Brace construct to
> Apple Smalltalk back around 1985, and there it sat in Apple's APDA (Apple
> Programmer and Developer Association) Smalltalk release for about a decade.
> Then we resurrected that image as the basis of Squeak, and I've never
> bothered to tear it out."
> >
> > More at
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/notes/curlybraces.html
> >
> > - Bert -
>
>
> Speaking of brace constructs, I kind-of liked the assignment:
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> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1999-March/011392.html
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> (but it never decompiled correctly I think)
>

That's fixable :)  Got an implementation?


>
> - Bert -
>
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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