[ANSI-Smalltalk] on the pitfalls of design... (short :-)

[Panu Logic]

My mistake, Sorry

I now see the reason for the discrepancy.
In my image, I already had #<- defined also
for some subclasses  of Object, including Collection.

Regardless I think the point still exists: You can
construct dynamic collections with a succinct syntax
without having to define special rules for literal Arrays.

-Panu Viljamaa




Panu Logic wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>>>  (OrderedCollection new   <-  true  <-  false  <-  #foo)  ....
>>> Object >> <- anObject
>>>   ^ OrderedCollection new add: self; add: anObject; yourself
>> The above code gives
>>
>>   OrderedCollection (OrderedCollection (OrderedCollection
>>      (OrderedCollection () true ) false ) #foo )
>
>
> Which Smalltalk implementation are we talking about here? In my 
> Dolphin6, after adding the above definition,  I get:
>
>                OrderedCollection new   <-  true  <-  false  <-  #foo.
>
> RETURNS:
>
>               an OrderedCollection(true false #foo)
>
>
> I think this just goes to show that a new standard - with multiple
> standard-compliant implementations - is much in need indeed.
>
>
> -Panu Viljamaa
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