On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com> wrote:
I started referencing Smalltalk idioms at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages_(string_fun...) I could have focused on ANSI but have chosen Squeak/Pharo. Feel free to correct me and to complete me.
This is a very enlighting exercize, especially for pointing when API turns to be not that bright. During my perigrination, I notably noticed this:
#compare: returns 1, 2, or 3 : this is both very object oriented, very intuitive and very standard and the rest of the world is stupid, unless...
Yes, really stupid, but maybe Squeak/Pharo should align here to the rest of the world or better, remove this method. We could use comparaison methods instead: <, >, ... -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/