On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:24:03 -0700, Maurice van Peursem
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What exactly does the following line mean?
cr Character cr.
A typo? Unless by some means I don't understand a nil object is
supposed to understand the message "Character".
Ah, that would explain a lot. Very confusing when there are typos in
a teaching manual...
I (as Perl programmer) would write:
cr := Character cr.
I would think that's right.
[:c | c = cr ifTrue: [count count + 1]].
Smalltalk has "=" and "==" as assignment and comparison
respectively. So you need the "==" to compare c to cr.
No, I'm pretty sure you are wrong here, := is assignment, = means
equals, and == means identical. The difference is not explained, but
I take it as value equals vs. pointer equals. That is why I'm
confused, I would expect an = here, not an ==.
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5699
But there are errors in this document also, I hate it when I can't be
sure of a supposedly complete reference.
It also should be "count := count + 1", I believe.
Yeah, the assignment is lost in all statements. Maybe they used the
underscore, and that got lost in the PDF?
Maurice
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