like we've got some Smalltalk fans here. What say we start a new
mailing list for designing Perltalk? :-)
=thom
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(The Naked Now)
On 2003-01-21 at 11:09:21, Thom Boyer wrote:
One of the most... er, *interesting*, dodges I've seen in this area is the
one used by Squeak (a Smalltalk variant). Squeak spells assignment with an
underscore (_), but the Squeak system *draws* it as a left-pointing arrow.
There's a history behind
Thom Boyer wrote:
Smylers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
And an alternative spelling for the assignment operator[*0] doesn't
strike me as something Perl is really missing:
$msg ~ 'Hello there';
$msg = 'Hello there';
I still remember the first time I saw a computer program
really add to the clarity of the code. I just
don't want
to have to write the parser!
[1] What *do* you call this style of operator -- intermingled-fix?
Looks like we've got some Smalltalk fans here. What say we start a
new
mailing list for designing Perltalk? :-)
I can't even smell Spalltalk
MJR == Mark J Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MJR On 2003-01-21 at 11:09:21, Thom Boyer wrote:
One of the most... er, *interesting*, dodges I've seen in this area
is the one used by Squeak (a Smalltalk variant). Squeak spells
assignment with an underscore (_), but the Squeak system
