> On Jan 11, 2017, at 9:38 PM, Martin McClure <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 01/11/2017 04:54 PM, Jan Vrany wrote: >> Hi, I'm afraid this is not specified. There's no >> language specification (*) as such of Pharo or any >> other available smalltalk - at least not that I know >> (prove me if I'm wrong). > > The ANSI Smalltalk spec says > > "The individual statements are executed in left to right sequence," but in > context I believe that this just means that you execute the first statement > in the method, then the next, and so on. > > Ah, here it is. Section 3.4.5.3 says > > "The receiver and the arguments are evaluated before the message is sent. > They are evaluated in a left-to-right order." > So that's pretty clear.
Thanks, Martin. I'm relieved :-). "a" seems superfluous. Hopefully there is only one left-to-right order ;-) > > Regards, > > -Martin > >
