[ANSI-Smalltalk] Re: A list of interesting methods, ifNotNil:

[Eliot Miranda]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Richard O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

> [snip]
> Me, I've always considered it better style to do
>
>        name := expression.
>        name ifNotNil: [...].


Slightly inaccurate.  It is really
        | name |
        ...
       name := expression.
       name ifNotNil: [...]

vs
        expression ifNotNil: [:name|...]

Being readably concise, free of boiler-plate and economical with vertical
real-estate are far better style than their converses, IMO.
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