Example A-SIGNATURES Re: A Way to express Standard multi-argument Method Signatures in Smalltalk Re: [ANSI-Smalltalk] Next STEPs

[Eliot Miranda]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:

> > #( Message >> forwardTo: Object withArguments: Collection ^ Object)
> > #( Message class >> selector: Object ^ Message)
> > #( Integer >> >> Integer ^ Integer)
> >
> > etc, so we still have infix selectors.  So the receiver type is the
> > token(s) up to the first #>> and the result type is the token(s) after
> #^.
>
> Somewhat drifting from the original topic, but I'll note that the ANSI
> standard does not have symbols in array without a prefixed # (the only
> "bare" keywords accepted there are true/false/nil and they signify the
> three objects).


Which is something I'd change.  Which dialects don't support the non-ANSI
behaviour?
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