Hi, thanks for your arguments!


I think that #<- would be symmetric to #->, such as #< and #>, etc. ...

Another example would be [Dictionary newFrom: {1 <- #one. 2 <- #two. 3 <- #three}], but I agree, readability is quite subjective here.

>From my point of view, Stef, implementing #<- with a completely different meaning would be confusing. I guess this depends on your specific domain.


@Jakob:

> Sometimes I think one should separate Smalltalk the programming language from Smalltalk as a scripting language (in Vivide or your spreadsheets, Christoph). I find such brevity cool for the latter but I despise it for the former.

Interesting statement! From a scripting perspective, it would be great to have a maximum number of convenient utils. However, I find it always confusing when you start building a solution via scripting and then need to rephrase your code because scripting syntax is not available for real programs. This compromises the idea of the One Uniform Smalltalk.

Best,
Christoph

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Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Dezember 2019 19:59:19
An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] #<-



> On 2019-12-15, at 3:38 AM, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de> wrote:
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> Sometimes I think one should separate Smalltalk the programming language from Smalltalk as a scripting language (in Vivide or your spreadsheets, Christoph). I find such brevity cool for the latter but I despise it for the former.

Also +1. What next -
1 value: 4 value: 'two'
being handled by converting the 1 to #one, sending #isKindOf: to the second arg and then coercively converting the first argument to a compatible class via an indirection dictionary provided by a database lookup from the receiver?

tim
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