There was an interesting post on comp.lang.smalltalk which, although
semi-off-topic (it concerns Smalltalk as a language, rather than
Squeak as an implementation specifically), reveals some of the
misunderstandings that many industry professionals have toward
Smalltalk in general.
The main portion
On 16.11.2009, at 23:04, Stephane Schitter wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am playing around with squeak to connect to webservices and I run into
> issues very early in the process.
> Something to do with url encoding. Is there any reason the following code:
>
> 'aa aa éé aa aa' encodeForHTTP
>
hello,
I am playing around with squeak to connect to webservices and I run into issues
very early in the process.
Something to do with url encoding. Is there any reason the following code:
'aa aa éé aa aa' encodeForHTTP
would generate this:
'aa%20aa%20%C3%A9%C3%A9%20%A9aa%20%A
Hi Andy,
I may be way off in my understanding of what you are trying to do, if so I
apologize ahead of time.
It looks to me like you want to create a method that will answer the
Fibonacci value for a given number. Hence your first attempt
Integer>>fibonacci: aNumber. Where I expect you returned
Hi Andy,
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Andy Burnett
wrote:
> Brilliant, so I was on the right track - sort of! Now for the important
> question. Where are the special characters defined? I looked in Smalltalk,
> and found a SpecialObjectsArray (along with a warning saying "don't touch
> th
Michael said <<
If you want to implement the method as a binary message (with special
characters), everything is fine
>>
Brilliant, so I was on the right track - sort of! Now for the important
question. Where are the special characters defined? I looked in Smalltalk,
and found a SpecialObject
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:37 PM, John Worden wrote:
>
> I came to Squeak/Smalltalk and started having a play. There is something
> addictive about it but at the same time there are things like the speed issue
> above that don't make it "easy" for the learner. As an exercise I started to
> con
