SuffixConditionals adds #if: and #unless methods to BlockClosure. Currently in VisualWorks but can be ported to other Smalltalks (like Pharo) as well. Read here: http://forum.world.st/ANN-SuffixConditionals-td4755785.html Code is on Cincom Public Repo and snaphots on https://github.com/randycoulman/SuffixConditionals
Torsten Bergmann wrote
SuffixConditionals adds #if: and #unless methods to BlockClosure. Currently in VisualWorks but can be ported to other Smalltalks (like Pharo) as well.
Good idea! It is MIT and would be a great bridge for a Ruby community in the spirit of http://forum.world.st/a-Pharo-talk-from-a-ruby-conference-tp4756805p4757055.... : FAQ Q: ifTrue: and ifFalse: look weird to me. Why can't I have more readable control flow statements like Ruby? A: You can! Simply load SuffixConditionals from the Configuration Browser and you can write things like: [process stop] if: process isRunning and [process start] unless: process isRunning Also would be a great answer when this inevitably comes up in the endless "why isn't Smalltalk as popular as Ruby" conversations (http://stackoverflow.com/a/438986/424245) ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/SuffixConditionals-tp4757183p4757212.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
As it is MIT I ported it to Pharo: Code is available on http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~TorstenBergmann/SuffixConditionals One can load it from the config browser Bye T.
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. April 2014 um 14:29 Uhr Von: "Sean P. DeNigris" <sean@clipperadams.com> An: pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org Betreff: Re: [Pharo-dev] SuffixConditionals
Torsten Bergmann wrote
SuffixConditionals adds #if: and #unless methods to BlockClosure. Currently in VisualWorks but can be ported to other Smalltalks (like Pharo) as well.
Good idea! It is MIT and would be a great bridge for a Ruby community in the spirit of http://forum.world.st/a-Pharo-talk-from-a-ruby-conference-tp4756805p4757055.... : FAQ Q: ifTrue: and ifFalse: look weird to me. Why can't I have more readable control flow statements like Ruby? A: You can! Simply load SuffixConditionals from the Configuration Browser and you can write things like: [process stop] if: process isRunning and [process start] unless: process isRunning
Also would be a great answer when this inevitably comes up in the endless "why isn't Smalltalk as popular as Ruby" conversations (http://stackoverflow.com/a/438986/424245)
----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/SuffixConditionals-tp4757183p4757212.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Torsten Bergmann [via Smalltalk] <ml-node+s1294792n4757223h1@n4.nabble.com> wrote:
As it is MIT I ported it to Pharo: Cool! Thanks :) Was it straightforward to port? I havenât ported anything from VW in a while. Xtreams was in my sights - we did a proof of concept with filetree and cyprus mapping namespaces to prefixes. Should revisit that...
----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/SuffixConditionals-tp4757183p4757233.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
It was a "no-brainer", I did'nt even load the code into VisualWorks (which I do not have installed these days as I have no up to date copy/version). I just checked https://github.com/randycoulman/SuffixConditionals, the *.pst files are XML files and are therefore readable. 3 extension methods if:, unless:, and if:else: methods to BlockClosure plus a few tests. Feel free to do the same with Xtreams ;) Bye T.  Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. April 2014 um 16:07 Uhr Von: "Sean P. DeNigris" <sean@clipperadams.com> An: pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org Betreff: Re: [Pharo-dev] SuffixConditionals On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Torsten Bergmann [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email]> wrote:
As it is MIT I ported it to Pharo: Cool! Thanks :) Was it straightforward to port? I havenât ported anything from VW in a while. Xtreams was in my sights - we did a proof of concept with filetree and cyprus mapping namespaces to prefixes. Should revisit that... Cheers, SeanÂ
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I just checked https://github.com/randycoulman/SuffixConditionals, the *.pst files are XML files and are therefore readable Ha, cool!
----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/SuffixConditionals-tp4757183p4757248.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Thanks Torsten. I've been using my own favorite suffix conditional: #haltIfTrue. Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo 2014-04-30 10:57 GMT-03:00 Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de>:
As it is MIT I ported it to Pharo:
Code is available on http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~TorstenBergmann/SuffixConditionals
One can load it from the config browser
Bye T.
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. April 2014 um 14:29 Uhr Von: "Sean P. DeNigris" <sean@clipperadams.com> An: pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org Betreff: Re: [Pharo-dev] SuffixConditionals
Torsten Bergmann wrote
SuffixConditionals adds #if: and #unless methods to BlockClosure. Currently in VisualWorks but can be ported to other Smalltalks (like Pharo) as well.
Good idea! It is MIT and would be a great bridge for a Ruby community in the spirit of http://forum.world.st/a-Pharo-talk-from-a-ruby-conference-tp4756805p4757055.... : FAQ Q: ifTrue: and ifFalse: look weird to me. Why can't I have more readable control flow statements like Ruby? A: You can! Simply load SuffixConditionals from the Configuration Browser and you can write things like: [process stop] if: process isRunning and [process start] unless: process isRunning
Also would be a great answer when this inevitably comes up in the endless "why isn't Smalltalk as popular as Ruby" conversations (http://stackoverflow.com/a/438986/424245)
----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/SuffixConditionals-tp4757183p4757212.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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