On 5/10/12, Levente Uzonyi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2012, H. Hirzel wrote: > >> Hello >> >> A question about dynamic arrays >> >> Goran writes that he thinks they were introduced in Squeak? > > Göran wrote: > "It is simply a dynamic {} array (was introduced originally in Squeak I > believe) > but with the assumption that the expressions all evaluate to Associations > that are limited to a string as key." > > So it's not about dynamic arrays, but arrays created with the brace > syntax. And yes, that was introduced in Squeak.
Any idea when and for which reason? Where are they used these days? Which other Smalltalk dialects have adopted it? > > Btw OrderedCollections are dynamic arrays. > > > Levente > >> Is this correct? If yes when? References? >> Which other Smalltalk dialects do have them? >> >> Regards >> Hannes >> >> >> On 5/8/12, Janko Mivšek <[email protected]> wrote: >> [...snip] >>> >>> Dne 08. 05. 2012 09:55, piše Göran Krampe: >>>> Hi guys! >>>> >>>> I just posted an article about JSON/STON/Literal arrays/Tirade - and it >>>> is probably easiest to read at planet.smalltalk.org (my blog has a >>>> rather bad theme I realized): >>>> >>>> http://planet.smalltalk.org >>>> >>>> ...or at my blog: >>>> >>>> http://goran.krampe.se/2012/05/08/literal-arrays-vs-json-vs-ston-vs-tirade >>>> >>>> Sven - sorry for beating down a bit on STON in that article, nothing >>>> personal and I love all the stuff you have done, I just have a hard >>>> time >>>> placing STON in my toolbox. If you can give me good arguments why I am >>>> dead wrong - please do! ;) >>>> >>>> And regarding Tirade, feel free to criticize that too of course, it is >>>> still not set in stone and all input is appreciated, including telling >>>> me it sucks :). >>>> >>>> The most interesting bit of the article is perhaps my thoughts on >>>> literals in Smalltalk - would be nice to hear what people thinḱ. And >>>> oh, >>>> sorry for the length of the article - it kinda swelled. >>>> >>>> regards, Göran >> >>
