On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 16.10.2016 14:35 schrieb "CodeDmitry" <dimamakh...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> I define Magic as "An opaque abstraction or an abstraction you think is
>> opaque until you learn better.", to a beginner, everything is deeply
>> Magical.
>>
>> That said, much of Smalltalk's opaqueness is not due to the language, but
>> due to me being a beginner. I'm sure there's a way to actually force
>> sending
>> a message to a dictionary via something like dict['at:put:']('foo', 'bar')
>> but I am not familiar enough with Smalltalk to express it, so it feels
>> like
>> the only way to send a message is via this multi-part message abstraction.
>>
>
> You can always access the method dict directly to get a method and call
> "perform" or perform with arguments.
To put that in more concrete terms...
a := Array new: 1.
a perform: #at:put: withArguments: {1. 'Hello, world'}.
a inspect.
Note how #at:put: is a single identifier.
cheers -ben
