Whither SmallScript? (was Re: Integer micro-benchmarks)

Darren New dnew at san.rr.com
Tue May 1 12:32:57 EDT 2001


Dave Harris wrote:
> Close. There's an extra bar and the colons go the other side of the
> variables.
> 
>    [ : f : g | |q r| code goes here]
> 
> It as if there were an invisible message selector keywords before the
> arguments.

That's why I didn't remember. I never clued in that's what the syntax was
supposed to represent. (One of the hazards of simple syntax, I guess.)

> Well, it's not like this part of Smalltalk is ideal.

True. But it *is* pretty minimal. :-)

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