Of course. But there are some other things that are available. ยง, `, ? comes to mind.
Phil On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
