On 07 May 2014, at 23:25, Nicolas Cellier <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> I love these kind of snippets :)
> 
> I have built a collection of freak expressions in Squeak3.9.
> Pharo 3.0 is less spectacular, above collection is shrinking dangerously...
> but there are still some not so unsurprising features to test for:

These are actually not that funny, we should try to do something about them, or 
at least discuss them a bit.

> 'hello' copyReplaceFrom: 6 to: 4 with: 'world'.

#copyReplaceFrom:to:with: seems overloaded with the insert case, is that really 
necessary ?
still the fact that the $o appears twice feels like a bug, no ?

> (5 to: 10) at: 1.3.

understandable, scary, wrong, maybe use #asInteger on the index ?

> '' , #[119 104 97 116 63].
> #[] , 'what?'. "honour is safe, it's sorta symmetric..."

that is the ByteString/ByteArray dichotomy at work, may enforce the #species of 
the receiver and argument to be equal ? 

> "Cases of special syntax. Is the behavior officially supported in some EBNF?"
> -2r-1.
> - 2. "Note the space between the two letters"

These are at the (number) syntax level. Again scary, we should be (much) 
stricter in parsing.

> 2014-05-07 22:47 GMT+02:00 [email protected] <[email protected]>:
> 
> Le 7 mai 2014 22:17, "kilon alios" <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> 
> >
> > I dont know if you guys are aware of this talk, very funny , quite weird , 
> > so I thought why not share it with you
> >
> > https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
> 
> Yeah, Amber kind of alleviates some of these pain points...
> 


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