Re: [Pharo-users] question on syntax "negate numbers"

2014-11-10 7:59 GMT+01:00 Henrik Johansen <henrik.s.johansen@veloxit.no>:

IMHO, the old compiler is right, whitespace should not be allowed in literals.

Whitespace can be \t or \n,\r which makes for strange literals (multilines) such as: - 5 And would create ambiguity in some cases is 4 - 5 two literals, or is it two literals separated by the - operator ? For instance, 3 @ - 5 reads like gibberish.

But is 3 @ -5 a problem or not ? Why is the old compiler accepting -3 @ 5, and not 3 @ -5 ? Thierry

Cheers, Henry