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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint
From: |
Mike Anderson |
Subject: |
Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:01:38 +0000 |
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David Given wrote:
> Mike Anderson wrote:
> [...]
>
>>I was warming to the first one. It looks like you're sending a block as
>>a message, which is odd, but not too odd. To think of a method body as a
>>block is very natural. Unfortunately, I've realized that it gives you no
>>opportunity to name the parameters. I suppose you could have:
>
>
> I may be missing something, but given that blocks *do* have named parameters,
> and that you can figure out how many parameters a message has from looking at
> the name, is there anything wrong with:
>
> String addMethod: #join: doing: [ :aCollectionOfStrings |
> ...code here...
> ].
>
> and:
>
> String addMethod: #replace:with: doing: [ :source :dest |
> ...code here...
> ].
>
> Admittedly, this doesn't give you the traditional "replace: source with: dest"
> syntax, but it does avoid having to invent anything too alien.
You're quite right, but I think that that declaration is no more
readable than a C function signature, whereas the traditional Smalltalk
signature is much more readable. Also, with the entire method definition
in square brackets, it looks the same as the contents of a method
browser in any other Smalltalk, examples in books, etc.
Regards,
Mike
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, (continued)
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Luca Bruno, 2006/09/29
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Mike Anderson, 2006/09/29
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Paolo Bonzini, 2006/09/29
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Bram Neijt, 2006/09/29
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Mike Anderson, 2006/09/29
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Paolo Bonzini, 2006/09/29
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Mike Anderson, 2006/09/29
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, David Given, 2006/09/29
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Paolo Bonzini, 2006/09/30
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, David Given, 2006/09/30
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint,
Mike Anderson <=
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Paolo Bonzini, 2006/09/30
- Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Bram Neijt, 2006/09/29
Re: [Help-smalltalk] Community sprint, Bram Neijt, 2006/09/29