On Oct 10, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:

On 10 October 2010 16:13, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

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personnally I do not like this form What does it do?

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process ifNotNil: #terminate.

here the test case for it:

| process answer |

process := Object new.

answer := process ifNotNil: #terminate.

self assert: answer == #terminate.

all that to avoid to have ifNotNil: [#terminate] I would not change the ifNotNil: for that. But make the compiler smarter Stef

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for me it means passes the symbol #terminate as argument to the method ifNotNil: If it has a more magical behavior then I do not know it.

Stef

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The compiler uselessly insist on #ifNotNil: argument being a zero/one arg block. Thus we cannot write this xtream sentence

process ifNotNil: #terminate.

When the argument is not a block, Compiler should avoid inlining and just send a normal message.

cheers

Nicolas

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