Hi bob Why could be done is to extend the compiler (marcus did that in the past) to have compile time evaluation. Now how many times such feature is used in your application?
Stef > printTheNumberToTheTranscript > > Transcript nextPutAll: ##( 10 factorial asString ) . > > no calculation or string conversion is necessary, because 10 factorial > asString was evaluated at compile time and the answer was stored. Please > note that this is different from array literals, which is how Pharo seems to > treat this syntax. > > As far as I can tell, Pharo does not have this feature (certainly not with > that syntax), but I would love to be proved wrong. Am I? No it does not. > Does anyone else have words of wisdom regarding porting a VAST app to Pharo? > Any other language features that are missing? Not really Did you check the float precision? > I'm not too concerned about Pragmas, and this app has no GUI, so I'm not > concerned about UI framework differences. Do not hesitate to let us know the problem you encounter. > > Thanks, > Bob Hartwig >
