In general I banned evaluate from the book vocabulary because people
think that this is slower.
I saw teachers writing that smalltalk is interpreted and java compiled :).
I use execute.
On 15/7/14 19:20, Ben Coman wrote:
Mostly I take for granted that "DoIt" has always been the way to
evaluate things with Smalltalk, however I find it awkward to use in
writing a tutorial. Some examples... * After saving, select "Grid
new" and "DoIt" -- this sounds awkward, and even that you might need
select the latter as well.
* After saving, "Grid new" DoIt. -- doesn't read nice
* After saving, DoIt to "Grid new." -- worst of all
I'd feel better writing something like this...
* After saving, evaluate "Grid new".
but "evaluate" is not an item in the menus. I think actually many
people talk this way with the implicit convention that "evaluate"
means "DoIt".
So first, does anyone have a good way to compose sentences using "DoIt".
Second, how evil would it be to change the menus from "DoIt" to
"Evaluate" and so avoid the implicit convention.
cheers -ben
