Le 06/10/2017 �� 23:34, Tim Mackinnon a ��crit :Gosh - It actually work quite well to be able to easily browse code
online in a more traditional format of seeing an entire class. Hopefully
this leads to us being able to share solutions to common language
agnostic problems.
One small observation - I quickly grok���d the use of class { ���. } (with
the curly braces) - but given that smalltalk methods often have lots of
[ ] (square braces in them), I was a bit surprised to see that method
declarations in tonal don���t use { ��� } (curly braces) to denote them, but
instead use [ ] - which feels slightly strange given the class
declaration above has. {}.
Was it easier to parse this way, or is there some subtlety I missed? I
would have been tempted to use {} for classes and methods and [] for
the protocols as this more closely matches what other languages do - and
it might actually make it more easily readable for other programmers.
Given we have to learn this new format anyway - I���d be prepared to give
a nod to what others do���
Possibly this observation comes to late - and maybe there is compelling
reason to go the route we have gone - but maybe its worth a quick double
check as its an exciting development.
Tim
Hi,I cannot say for class, but the {} for methods metadata (as protocols)is because it is STON.
yeah, that���s the reason��� we use STON to store package/class/method metadata. And STON uses curly braces :S
not a big fan either, but at a point I had to make the thing work :)
Esteban