A silly diversion from normal GST matters: Even before I decided to make a go of actually learning and using Smalltalk in a real application, GNU Smalltalk affected my programming style in all languages in one profound way: the method documentation seems to use the word "answer" rather than "return".
I adopted this convention in all my function and method documentation in all languages I programmed in. I wrote code in Scheme, CL, Ruby, C#, Java, C, and maybe some I forgot saying "answer", long before I actually started writing Smalltalk code. It seemed to me that "answer" better captured the spirit of the function/method interface better than "return", however this may have clashed with code written by others. Was this convention carried over by Steve Byrne, or someone else, from the Blue Book? Else, where did it come from? Has anyone else experienced this strange psychological reaction? -- Stephen Compall http://scompall.nocandysw.com/blog ##smalltalk,#gnu-smalltalk on Freenode IRC
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