I don't think any other st dialect would accept that syntax but Squeak.
It's just how the parser/scanner works now, but It wouldn't break much
code IMO if we stop supporting these weirdnesses.

Nicolas

2010/4/29 Lukas Renggli <[email protected]>:
> Actually I didn't have all the latest code loaded in the open image.
> There is more, hold your breath:
>
> testSymbolNumbers
>        #(('#1' 1) ('#12' 12) ('#12.3' 12.3) ('# 1' 1) ('##1' 1) ('#"bar"1'
> 1)) do: [ :pair |
>                tree := RBParser parseExpression: pair first.
>                self assert: tree value = pair second.
>                self assert: tree start > 1.
>                self assert: tree stop = pair first size ]
>
> On 29 April 2010 21:12, Lukas Renggli <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> # "helllooo" foo
>>>
>>> prints
>>> #foo
>>>
>>> is this correct?
>>
>> Probably not, but the standard compiler accepts it. So I had to patch
>> the parser of the refactoring engine to accept a whole series of
>> degraded constructs. Below a small collection of tests documenting
>> some of these strange things:
>>
>> testSymbolLiteral
>>        | tree |
>>        #(('# foo' #foo) ('#"bar"foo' #foo) ('##foo' #foo) ('###foo' #foo)
>> ('#foo:' #foo:) ('#foo::' #'foo::') ('#foo::bar' #'foo::bar')
>> ('#foo::bar:' #'foo::bar:') ('#foo::bar::' #'foo::bar::')) do: [ :pair
>> |
>>                tree := RBParser parseExpression: pair first.
>>                self assert: tree value = pair second.
>>                self assert: tree start = 1.
>>                self assert: tree stop = pair first size ]
>>
>> testStatements
>>        | tree |
>>        #(('' 0 0) ('.' 0 1) ('| bar |' 0 0) ('| bar | .' 0 1) ('| bar | ..'
>> 0 2) ('foo. bar' 2 1) ('foo. bar.' 2 2) ('foo. bar. .' 2 3) ('. foo.
>> bar' 2 2)) do: [ :each |
>>                tree := RBParser parseExpression: each first.
>>                self assert: tree statements size = each second.
>>                self assert: tree periods size = each last ]
>>
>> testNumberParsing
>>        | numbers node |
>>        numbers := #(('1' 1) ('-1' -1) ('123' 123) ('123' 123) ('-123' -123)
>> ('1.1' 1.1) ('-1.1' -1.1) ('1.23' 1.23) ('-1.23' -1.23) ('1e3' 1e3)
>> ('1d3' 1d3) ('1q3' 1q3) ('-1e3' -1e3) ('1e-3' 1e-3) ('-1e-3' -1e-3)
>> ('2r1e8'  2r1e8) ('-2r1e8' -2r1e8) ('2r1e-8' 2r1e-8) ('-2r1e-8'
>> -2r1e-8) ('0.50s2' 0.50s2) ('0.500s3' 0.500s3) ('0.050s3' 0.050s3)).
>>        numbers do: [ :spec |
>>                node := RBParser parseExpression: spec first.
>>                self assert: node token source = spec first.
>>                self assert: node value = spec second ]
>>
>> Lukas
>>
>> --
>> Lukas Renggli
>> www.lukas-renggli.ch
>>
>
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