> 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.
This is still not really readable compared to
4 ifNotNil: [:rec | rec squared]
For select: #even why not
Now to me this looks like a hack and again it works because now Symbol are
valuable objects.
Too many hacks will only make the system more hackish.
And especially the
iftrue: 'foo' ifFalse: 'zork'
In Smalltalk this is simple you ut bracket when you do not know if a part
should/will be executed.
Now with such change this is not the case anymore.
I think that we are focusing on the wrong point. Changing the language that way
does not
bring anything really useful.
And I would veto such usage in the core for consistency reason.
Stef
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