On Oct 10, 2010, at 3:13 08PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > personnally I do not like this form > What does it do? > >> process ifNotNil: #terminate. > > > for me it means passes the symbol #terminate as argument to the method > ifNotNil: > If it has a more magical behavior then I do not know it. > > Stef
It's exactly the same as using collection do: #something. FWIW, in 1.2 we already included the compiler changes Levente suggested to me to remove this restriction, so nil ifNotNil: #squared -> nil 4 ifNotNil: #squared -> 16. I.e. it already does what Nicolas suggested. (As per the Symbol>>#cull: thread) Cheers, Henry > > >> The compiler uselessly insist on #ifNotNil: argument being a zero/one arg >> block. >> Thus we cannot write this xtream sentence >> >> process ifNotNil: #terminate. >> >> When the argument is not a block, Compiler should avoid inlining and >> just send a normal message. >> >> cheers >> >> Nicolas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
