[squeak-dev] Re: [Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] About ~= and ~~

[David Ungar]

Maybe we need an if: isAnother: method in Object....

foo if: bar isAnother: [...]

:)

- David (from iPad, typos likely)

On Oct 12, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > People avoid it because of performance.  But I much prefer foo ~~ bar ifTrue: than foo == bar ifFalse:.  So I suspect/hope dynamic frequency will grow as people find its not such a performance issue any more.
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> Well, no accounting for taste, I guess. I'd avoid it because I much
> prefer foo == bar iFalse:
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> But why, if it doesn't express intent directly?  It's cognitively more difficult.  You have to negate to get the intent.
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> Colin
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> -- 
> best,
> Eliot
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