Reminds me again how close Smalltalk comes to the real world. Dont know if the interest rate of 0.1 is still valid after the financial crisis ;) but I always liked this natural expression style of Smalltalk:
initialCapital := 100 dollars. interestRate := 0.1 / 1 year. Especially the ease of "1 year", "1 month" or "Date today". If you ever worked with the date and calendar mess in Java you know what I'm talking about. I can even write: 100 m2 100 USD 100 EUR 100 € Unfortunately I cant (yet) write unary messages like this in Smalltalk: 100 $ 100 % Wonder why not. Parser gives "Message pattern expected", maybe because of unary vs. binary. Have to think about it ... -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
