Igor Stasenko wrote:
On 29/11/2007, Florin Mateoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think it's more than just about precedence as an arbitrary choice of order of
execution. These binary operations have interesting mathematical properties
(associativity and commutativity), which are important concepts in maths going
beyond mere convention, and which Smalltalk breaks, and where Smalltalk's
simplicity (or regularity) of always having one privileged argument (the
receiver) is a wee bit too simple.
Florin
First thing, people should learn in smalltalk, i think, is that there
is no operators at all. There is only the messages which passed to
objects.
You know...
I have long suspected this!
- antoine
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