[squeak-dev] Renaming "Squeak"

> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:23 PM, David Mitchell
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>  Brace notation for dynamic arrays!
>
> So instead of:
>
> dictionary := { $a -> 1. $b -> 2. $c -> 3 } asDictionary.
>
> I need to type:
>
> dictionary := Dictionary new
>                        add: $a -> 1;
>                        add: $b -> 2;
>                        add: $c -> 3;
>                        yourself.
>
> ?  In my opinion the other dialects should adopt this or propose
> another way of doing it.  No concise syntax for dynamically creating a
> collection seems a problem to me, and easy to remedy in a language
> where one has access to the reader/compiler.  So why would it be bad
> to do so?
>
>
>
>  
>

> Why not just implement your own #asDictionary message on  
> SequencableCollection, if it's that much of an issue?
>
> asDictionary
> "Answer a Dictionary with receivers elements.
> Assumes all elements are associations"
> | dict |
> dict := Dictionary new.
> self do: [:each | dict add: each].
> ^dict
>
> That will do what you're asking.
>
> John.
>
> Jason Johnson wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:23 PM, David Mitchell
>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Brace notation for dynamic arrays!
>> So instead of:
>> dictionary := { $a -> 1. $b -> 2. $c -> 3 } asDictionary.
>> I need to type:
>> dictionary := Dictionary new
>>                       add: $a -> 1;
>>                       add: $b -> 2;
>>                       add: $c -> 3;
>>                       yourself.
>> ?  In my opinion the other dialects should adopt this or propose
>> another way of doing it.  No concise syntax for dynamically  
>> creating a
>> collection seems a problem to me, and easy to remedy in a language
>> where one has access to the reader/compiler.  So why would it be bad
>> to do so?
>>
>
> --
> John Thornborrow
> http://www.pinesoft.co.uk
>
>
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>Also, I don't care much for syntactic shortcuts
> like dynamic constructors. Although people describe Lisp as simple, I keep
> getting lost on the meaning of a single forward quote, a single backward
> quote, a double quote, a comma, etc. One of the early languages I learned
> was M (aka, MUMPS), where the semicolon had four different meanings,
> depending on the context. Of course, we weren't conserving characters for
> the programmers or for the maintainers, but for the machine--each user had 2
> KB for code and data.
>
> James Foster
>
>