Yeah!! I think in a unary % message too... but the syntax become ambiguous. For example: | positive | positive := 8. 1 % positive. It's not clear if % is in binary form and must use positive as a collaborator... or if is a unary message and must then send positive.. :( (By the way I like the % as a unary message more than a binary :P ) It's great with dates too: January first, 2010 works ok in Chalten... Regards, Gabriel On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
Reminds me again how close Smalltalk comes to the real world.
Dont know if the interest rate of 0.1 is still valid after the financial crisis ;) but I always liked this natural expression style of Smalltalk:
initialCapital := 100 dollars. interestRate := 0.1 / 1 year.
Especially the ease of "1 year", "1 month" or "Date today". If you ever worked with the date and calendar mess in Java you know what I'm talking about. I can even write:
100 m2 100 USD 100 EUR 100 â¬
Unfortunately I cant (yet) write unary messages like this in Smalltalk:
100 $ 100 %
Wonder why not. Parser gives "Message pattern expected", maybe because of unary vs. binary.
Have to think about it ...
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