On 11 October 2010 15:18, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> 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' >>> >> >> This is not a hack, because if you refer to implementation: >> >> True>>ifTrue: trueAlternativeBlock ifFalse: falseAlternativeBlock >> ^trueAlternativeBlock value >> >> False>>ifTrue: trueAlternativeBlock ifFalse: falseAlternativeBlock >> ^falseAlternativeBlock value >> >> so, it answers either 'foo' value , or 'zork' value. >> And #value could be sent to any object in system: >> >> Object>>value >> ^self >> >> What actually shown here is a use of duck typing, because any object, >> which implemets #value, could be safely passed >> as argument to #ifTrue:ifFalse: message. >> It is well consistent with language design. > > I know well that. and it sucks from a language semantics point of view. > I agree with the mail of lukas. >
Okay, your obscurity barrier is higher than mine, and mine is higher than VW's, Nicolas and Levente's one :) > Stef > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
