On 9/13/12, H. Hirzel <[email protected]> wrote: > This means that a browser which is just like a regular natural > language dictionary could be useful. A list of buttons (or a list) > with A...Z and then just the list of selectors and their class and > comment. > > Not actually new thing. I think Ernest Micklei from the Netherlands > had a web site displaying Smalltalk methods this way it seems no > longer accessible.
Here is the blog entry http://ernestmicklei.com/2009/11/13/soek-goodies-st-exploring-open-source-smalltalk-libraries/ However the actual product http://soek.goodies.st/ is no longer available.... > Such a list in the browser would be much handier. > > --Hannes > > > Another note: > > The discussion about Symbols reminds me that we actually have 'Atoms' > in Smalltalk. More on this see > http://live.exept.de/doc/online/english/programming/stForLispers.html > > "Like Lisp, Smalltalk provides atomic character strings, called > "symbols". In Smalltalk, these behave much like strings, with the > exception of being read-only (i.e. their character elements cannot be > changed) and being unique (i.e. they can be compared using the > identity compare operator #'==', as opposed to strings, which should > be compared using the equality operator #'='). > The Smalltalk message "asSymbol" corresponds to the Scheme > "string->symbol" function. " > > On 9/13/12, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote >>> >>> #detectMax: >> >> Woot! I've needed this several times and hand-rolled something because I >> didn't know it existed... and to think this thread started as a joke... >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/A-small-quiz-longest-selector-tp4647311p4647366.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >
