"Nice article. But asBit has existed in @SqueakSmalltalk since at least 2004. Why not say so?"

https://twitter.com/bertfreudenberg/status/707922868273856512

And indeed, in Pharo I see it added on 27.3. and 28.12.2012 (why almost a year difference?)

And in Squeak I see it added 1.7.2004 (although they don't have it in Boolean class).

The rest of the Boolean class looks pretty identical to the letter (including comments), so it makes one wonder why wasn't this copied over.

Peter

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

Thanks a lot, Ben, for your remarks; I applied them all.

I am glad you liked the article.

Sven

> On 10 Mar 2016, at 01:21, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
>>
>> I wrote another article:
>>
>>�� Tiny, yet so beautiful
>>�� The smallest piece of great Pharo code
>>�� https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/tiny-yet-so-beautiful-1ef5149c910e
>>
>
> I love reading these articles of yours.�� Very well written.
> Feedback for some minor wordsmithing...
>
> -�� 2 out of 5 reserved words in the language.)
> + 2 out of _the_ 5 reserved words in the language.) _They are
> instances respectively of classes True and False, that have common
> superclass Boolean._
>
> -�� where an identical message _results in_ different implementations
> + where an identical message _invokes_ different implementations
>
> -�� Manipulating objects using their API
> + Manipulating objects using their _pre-existing_ API
>
> -�� Switserland
> + Switzerland
>
> cheers -ben
>