Hello Blake, B> Looking at the chart, it looks like spaghetti code, and reminds me of some B> of the stuff I did in BASIC. And that's sort of what he's doing within B> Smalltalk. I'm actually tempted to show him how it would look in BASIC B> using GOTOs and line numbers. It would have the advantage of being easy to B> see all in one glance. for things I would have considered a state machine in previous languages in Squeak I usually take a Dictionary.
I've only used them two levels deep up to now and for a real deep tree it's not appropriate. But they are easy to follow by opening explorers on them and programming consists of going to the right dictionary typing: self at: "I now want to handle this case" put: [ the Block of code to handle this]. Lately I put these Dictionaries into class vars and on the class side I have some file in/ out code using reference streams. (Tried this only with Dictionaries containing no code, but I guess it should work with blocks too.) Cheers, Herbert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
