Not that anyone else probably cares, but the ANSI standard says
- for All objects x y, x = y if and only if y = x.
The Smalltalk-80 mixup over String and Symbol violated this,
‘X’ = #x but #x ~= ‘x’.
- two sequences are = iff they are the same size, corresponding elements
are =, AND they are
How did Pharo diverge from the other Smalltalks?
Was it a good decision?
stephane ducasse wrote:
Hello people
In Pharo (following Squeak tradition) a string is equals to its symbol
representation.
e.g.
’tintin’ = #tintin
> true
In other Smalltalk dialects this is not the case.
We have been
my 2c...
There are arguments for and against any of the semantics decisions, so leaving
those aside for greater minds...
+1 GemStone
Pharo and GemStone have long been an enviable workflow for “complex problems".
They go together in a project, each providing a necessary part of the puzzle.
Pha
Hello people
In Pharo (following Squeak tradition) a string is equals to its symbol
representation.
e.g.
’tintin’ = #tintin
> true
In other Smalltalk dialects this is not the case.
We have been working (sponsored by Lifeware) to support both semantics (yes
this is a kind of
Thanks for writing the book, Stefan (and all the other guys)
ciao
giorgio
On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM stephane ducasse
wrote:
> Thanks.
> Writing this book was a daunting huge difficult exhausting task that took
> me around 4 years or more.
>
> This publisher is managed using a not so great
