On 08 May 2014, at 09:37, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. Amazing. But this is even better (3 to: 8 by: 2) 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... >> > >
