Aug. 23, 2011
10:16 a.m.
On 17 Aug 2011, at 13:45 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
I prefer execute :) because evaluate looks like you don't run fast and generate possibly assembly on the fly. I stopped long time ago to use evaluate because people also think that Smalltalk is slow because of that evaluation....
I'm happy for Smalltalk to be fast! However, the method on block is called value: , not execute: So it makes sense to speak of evaluating a block, rather than executing it. Unless we change value: to execute: everywhere :-) Andrew