Yeah!! I think in a unary % message too... but the syntax become ambiguous.
For example: | positive | positive := 8. 1 % positive. It's not clear if % is in binary form and must use positive as a collaborator... or if is a unary message and must then send positive.. :( (By the way I like the % as a unary message more than a binary :P ) It's great with dates too: January first, 2010 works ok in Chalten... Regards, Gabriel On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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