On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Igor Stasenko wrote:
On 10 October 2010 17:34, Randal L. Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:
"Igor" == Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> writes:
Igor> i am also missing:
Igor> someThing ifTrue: 1 ifFalse: 0
Down that path lies ambiguity though.
If you had
actionSymbol := aBoolean ifTrue: #doThis else: #doThat.
do you want the symbol assigned, or performed?
Please don't add so much dwimmery here. I like it that Smalltalk is
fairly strict with these basic forms.
what dwimmery you talking about?
b := [ 15 ].
a := [ 16 ].
true ifTrue: a ifFalse: b
16
as well as:
b := 15 .
a := 16 .
true ifTrue: a ifFalse: b
16
works well.
In this way,
answer := process ifNotNil: #terminate.
should be equivalent to:
answer := process notNil ifTrue: #terminate
but not to:
answer := process notNil ifTrue: [ process terminate ].
How would you implement #ifNotNil: to reflect this? Would you dispatch on
the type of the argument?
Levente
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