On 10 Sep 2014, at 16:38, [email protected] wrote:
> I was playing around with the idea of using stuff like in jQuery, where we do
> have the '$' function that would do a lot of things.
>
> But one cannot create such elements as
>
> SlotClassBuilder>>validateClassName
> "Validate the new class name. Raise warning if invalid."
>
> name
> detect: [ :c | (c isAlphaNumeric or: [ c = $_ ]) not ]
> ifFound: [ :c | InvalidGlobalName signal: 'Invalid character:
> ''' , c printString , '''' for: name ].
> name first canBeGlobalVarInitial
> ifFalse: [ InvalidGlobalName signal: 'Class name does not start
> with a valid Global Var Initial' for: name ]
>
> doesn't let us.
>
> Is there a reason for that (ok, we have $ for chars, and #, ... and other
> things but still).
>
The problem is that $ is part of the smalltalk grammar for symbols, $ can not
be a variable name.
$asdasd
is parsed as a message send to the character a, for example.
Marcus
