On Nov 8, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
On 08 Nov 2012, at 20:29, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
I told you several time, do you think that a guy do not understand what is a pointer because he does not know how to write it in C? Give a chance to professionals to learn. We are not talking about explaining what is a pointer, but explaining the potential problems and challenges
With your reasoning, I should stop programming because there are so many things that I did not learn in school and I would not have no chance to learn from this community. So with that reasoning I should better stop working in Smalltalk and look for another language!
I think he meant it as a general warning ;-)
yes I know
The things is, as long as its pure Smalltalk, you are protected by a very good dynamic type system that cannot really be broken, i.e. the object illusion is kept (bounds checking, blah blah â¦)
indeed but this means that with a little care we should be able to explain points. I do not see them as difficult, just full of little details.
But once you start using C pointers, you can very easily do something wrong. It might be a very subtle error and it might not manifest itself immediately, alas there won't be a Debugger popping up, just a coredump.
Pharo is actually pretty/very stable in day to day use, it should stay that way.
oh! yes! Stef
Sven
-- Sven Van Caekenberghe http://stfx.eu Smalltalk is the Red Pill