[squeak-dev] _: in selectors

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Tue Sep 18 17:37:59 UTC 2018


Hi Eliot,

That's clearly a bug as the compiler accepts this:

method: p __: q __: r
^'cool'

Levente

On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi All,
>     Pharo accepts
> 
> method: p _: q _: r
> ^'cool'
> 
> Squeak does not.  I have an urgent compelling use case in VMMaker.  Would there be any strong objections to me modifying the Squeak compiler to accept the above when the allowUnderscoresInSelectors
> preference is in effect? 
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
> 
>


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