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

[Andres Valloud]

Just as a personal opinion, I usually type literal arrays in "full detail"
syntax, such as...

#(#abc '123' 456 nil false)

I feel it's more consistent to express individual literals as one would do
outside the scope of a literal array.  In that way, #abc is always written
#abc (or #'abc', but not abc).

This is more of a subjective taste thing than anything else though.

Andres.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:

>
> >     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?
>
> GNU Smalltalk.  I'm not opposed to changing it, *but* watch out because
> it's incompatible.  I would also appreciate an input on why the current
> choice was made.
>
> I would oppose for sure having #(abc true) mean "Array with: #abc with:
> true".  That would be the worst of both worlds.
>
> Paolo
>
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