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Eliot Miranda-2

_: in selectors

Hi All,

Pharo accepts

method: p _: q _: r

^'cool'

Squeak does not. I have an urgent compelling use case in VMMaker. Would there be any strong objections to me modifying the Squeak compiler to accept the above when the allowUnderscoresInSelectors preference is in effect?

_,,,^..^,,,_

best, Eliot

cbc

Re: _: in selectors

I have not objection with that AS LONG AS it doesn't inadvertently allow us to create a method _ (that is #_). This would make old code and new code become confusing, I would think.

Thanks,

cbc

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:25 AM Eliot Miranda <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi All,

Pharo accepts

method: p _: q _: r
^'cool'

Squeak does not. I have an urgent compelling use case in VMMaker. Would there be any strong objections to me modifying the Squeak compiler to accept the above when the allowUnderscoresInSelectors preference is in effect?
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot

Levente Uzonyi

Re: _: in selectors

In reply to this post by Eliot Miranda-2

Hi Eliot,

That's clearly a bug as the compiler accepts this:

method: p __: q __: r
^'cool'

Levente

On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi All,
> Pharo accepts
>
> method: p _: q _: r
> ^'cool'
>
> Squeak does not. I have an urgent compelling use case in VMMaker. Would there be any strong objections to me modifying the Squeak compiler to accept the above when the allowUnderscoresInSelectors
> preference is in effect?
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>
>

Eliot Miranda-2

Re: _: in selectors

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:38 AM Levente Uzonyi <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Eliot,

That's clearly a bug as the compiler accepts this:

method: p __: q __: r
^'cool'

ROTFL

Levente

On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi All,
> Pharo accepts
>
> method: p _: q _: r
> ^'cool'
>
> Squeak does not. I have an urgent compelling use case in VMMaker. Would there be any strong objections to me modifying the Squeak compiler to accept the above when the allowUnderscoresInSelectors
> preference is in effect?
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>
>

_,,,^..^,,,_

best, Eliot