On 17 Aug 2011, at 13:45 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> I prefer execute :)
> because evaluate looks like you don't run fast and generate possibly assembly
> on the fly.
> I stopped long time ago to use evaluate because people also think that
> Smalltalk is slow because of that evaluation....
I'm happy for Smalltalk to be fast!
However, the method on block is called value: , not execute: So it makes sense
to speak of evaluating a block, rather than executing it. Unless we change
value: to execute: everywhere :-)
Andrew
