Re: [Pharo-project] On not unnecessarily closing down the language

At Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:11:16 +0100, Michael Rueger wrote:

What really is the convenience of modifying an argument? Having not to think up another name? I never understood this argument especially if you need to use the original value of the argument in several places.

If you can think of an argument as a "temp initialized by the caller" (like C), that kind of unifies the args and temps and would reduce the implementation complexity. In *some cases* it would reduce the lines of code in the user land.

Same for upper/lowercase conventions, let alone uppercase method names.

For this, I would strongly advocate to remove the restriction, as only a small subset of letters (defined in Unicode) have the upper or lower classification. -- Yoshiki