May 10, 2012
11:34 a.m.
On 10.05.2012, at 13:25, H. Hirzel wrote:
On 5/10/12, Levente Uzonyi <leves@elte.hu> wrote:
So it's not about dynamic arrays, but arrays created with the brace syntax. And yes, that was introduced in Squeak.
Any idea when and for which reason?
Dan Ingalls, 1997: "Larry Tesler added the Curly Brace construct to Apple Smalltalk back around 1985, and there it sat in Apple's APDA (Apple Programmer and Developer Association) Smalltalk release for about a decade. Then we resurrected that image as the basis of Squeak, and I've never bothered to tear it out." More at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/notes/curlybraces.html - Bert -