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fmateoc
13y ago
Just as an example, writing #( 1 2 3 4 5 ) + 5 would actually be even more compact and more intuitive. A Smalltalk developer would interpret this as #+ being implemented in Collection, and the expectation would be that the implementation of
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fmateoc
13y ago
I don't mind trying to come up with less boilerplate syntax, but how does the reader of the code know when something is a HOM or a normal message? The above example is valid syntax in existing Smalltalk, a Smalltalk developer would int