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> as you can only put other literals in them What? That's not even close to true. You are misunderstanding something. Actually, I see I think the issue... m
by gnaritas 15y ago
> as you can only put other literals in them
What? That's not even close to true. You are misunderstanding something. Actually, I see I think the issue... most Smalltalks have progressed a bit since Smalltalk 80 and now have a fully functional array literal syntax whereas you're talking about the very restrictive original syntax from decades ago.
- masklinn 15y ago> Actually, I see I think the issue... most Smalltalks have progressed a bit since Smalltalk 80 and now have a fully functional array literal syntax whereas you're talking about the very restrictive original syntax from decades ago. I'm talking about Smalltalk-80, hence specifying it, but I know Dolphin Smalltalk still has that restriction.
- gnaritas 15y agoWell I brought up the Array literals in the context of modern Smalltalk; it makes little sense to respond to that by criticizing a decades old version of Smalltalk. Dolphin is a virtually dead Smalltalk, died officially a while back and was then resurrected, but it's hardly the model of a modern Smalltalk anymore. Visual Works, Pharo, Squeak, and Gemstone are modern Smalltalk's and all have a fully functional array literal syntax.