And you can put it as an specific application of High order programming (high order functions, high order predicates...).
I can suggest you to learn Haskell too <3 :D Guille On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Carlo <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd read up on Higher Order Messaging as to me this is an application of > it. > Googling for it should give you some good results, one of the hits will > most likely be a paper co-authored by Stephane which was presented at OOPSLA > 2005 if I'm not mistaken. > > Cheers > Carlo > > On 19 Mar 2011, at 3:40 AM, DougEdmunds wrote: > > It was pointed out that given an instance method > MyClass >> doSomething > that > MyClass do: [:each | each doSomething]. > can be expressed as > MyClass do: #doSomething. > > Can someone suggest something to read that explains the usage of # > here (#doSomething), the relation of methods to symbols, etc. > > Trying to wrap my head around it. Thanks. > > -dae > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Method-expressed-as-symbol-used-as-argument-tp3388864p3388864.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > >
