[squeak-dev] Assignment vs binary selector

I wonder,
if expression

a :== 5

having right to live?
Since there is no restrictions on binary selectors length, a #:=
followed by any binary char(s) can be treated as binary selector
instead of assignment, followed by syntax error.

What you think?

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

One more thing which i discovered in current parser:

#$A inspect

returns a character, not symbol. Is this correct to the syntaxt rules?

If not, what symbol it should be
#A
or
# '$A'
instead?


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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

Igor Stasenko wrote:
> One more thing which i discovered in current parser:
>
> #$A inspect
>
> returns a character, not symbol. Is this correct to the syntaxt rules?

It should be a syntax error, period.  Like

> a :== 5

should.

One idea I was toying with was to allow . in binary selectors, except
for the special #. of course; this goes along with the idea of
considering . to be a statement terminator only if not followed by
whitespace (avoiding the unintuitive behavior of {1.0.2.0}).  For example,

1..5 do: [ :i | Transcript show: i ]

Paolo