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Travis Griggs-3

Arbitrary Length (ANSI) Binary Selectors

I know not all here read blogs, that's fine, but there is one recent
post I'd like to float here for wider feedback:

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/travis/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=When_Binary_is_More_than_Two&entry=3378038929

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Dennis smith-4

Re: Arbitrary Length (ANSI) Binary Selectors

The only one that would concern me is
12@-45
that one I use all the time, and it might be a bit of a nuisance.
However, having said that, I suspect I would learn to live with it, but
the workarounds
don't look nice
12@45 negated
12@(-45)
12@ -45 -- I guess that one is not terrible.

Travis Griggs wrote:

> I know not all here read blogs, that's fine, but there is one recent
> post I'd like to float here for wider feedback:
>
> http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/travis/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=When_Binary_is_More_than_Two&entry=3378038929
>
>
> --
> Travis Griggs
> Objologist
> "I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward." - Henry
> David Thoreau
>
>
>

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Michael Lucas-Smith-2

Re: Arbitrary Length (ANSI) Binary Selectors

It's interesting you mention that because we just recently moved to
using a Vector class in OpenGL which uses #,

12, -45

Works naturally, but has the same problem if you write it as 12,-45 --
but that looks odd to me.

Michael

Dennis Smith wrote:

> The only one that would concern me is
> 12@-45
> that one I use all the time, and it might be a bit of a nuisance.
> However, having said that, I suspect I would learn to live with it,
> but the workarounds
> don't look nice
> 12@45 negated
> 12@(-45)
> 12@ -45 -- I guess that one is not terrible.
>
>
> Travis Griggs wrote:
>> I know not all here read blogs, that's fine, but there is one recent
>> post I'd like to float here for wider feedback:
>>
>> http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/travis/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=When_Binary_is_More_than_Two&entry=3378038929
>>
>>
>> --
>> Travis Griggs
>> Objologist
>> "I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward." -
>> Henry David Thoreau
>>
>>
>>
>

Travis Griggs-3

Re: Arbitrary Length (ANSI) Binary Selectors

In reply to this post by Dennis smith-4

On Jan 21, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Dennis Smith wrote:

> The only one that would concern me is
> 12@-45
> that one I use all the time, and it might be a bit of a nuisance.
> However, having said that, I suspect I would learn to live with it,
> but the workarounds
> don't look nice
> 12@45 negated
> 12@(-45)
> 12@ -45 -- I guess that one is not terrible.

As noted in the blog, there's nothing stopping one from implementing:

Number @- aNumber
^self @ aNumber negated

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Travis Griggs
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