Re: [Newbies] error trap

2006-08-10 Thread Davide Arrigo
Alle 18:16, mercoledì 9 agosto 2006, Ron Teitelbaum ha scritto: Hi Davide, I just wrote up something like this for Sedar: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2006-August/000701.ht m l To answer your question directly the answer is yes and no. MAny thanks to all of you, now

Re: Re: [Newbies] Why hasn't Smalltalk been wildly accepted?

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Kohout
When I get home(and if the weather isn't too nice) I play with Squeak. But when I go to work, I write Java(like a lot of people on this list, I'd imagine). One of the things that prevents me from even considering it at work is the lack of Oracle driver support. Of course, I could write that

[Newbies] Re: Re: Why hasn't Smalltalk been wildly accepted?

2006-08-10 Thread Klaus D. Witzel
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:43:46 +0200, Michael Kohout wrote: When I get home(and if the weather isn't too nice) I play with Squeak. But when I go to work, I write Java(like a lot of people on this list, I'd imagine). 8-) One of the things that prevents me from even considering it at work is

RE: [Newbies] Re: Re: error trap

2006-08-10 Thread Ron Teitelbaum
From: Klaus D. Witzel On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:11:40 +0200, Ron Teitelbaum wrote: Brian, Yes I agree it's a great suggestion, although a few changes: Literal blocks to not parse into collections automatically. Ron, please: a literal Array is a subclass of Collection and so the blocks

[Newbies] Re: error trap

2006-08-10 Thread Klaus D. Witzel
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:27:09 +0200, Roel Wuyts wrote: Note: no need for the endEntry when using show: it does it already (see TranscriptStream#show: ) Use a 'manual' endEntry when you would use nextPutAll: or print: etc. on the Transcript (which most people do not use anyway). Right you

[Newbies] Re: error trap

2006-08-10 Thread Klaus D. Witzel
Hi Ron, on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:02:11 +0200, you wrote: From: Klaus D. Witzel ... You didn't inspectIt for verifying No I didn't! The { } just looked so wrong and like C! Yes, same for me when I saw that for the first time in Squeak. Never saw that in Smalltalk/2.x (didn't look for it in