Le 9/4/16 10:04, philippe.b...@highoctane.be a écrit :
On Apr 9, 2016 9:54 AM, "olivier auverlot" <olivier.auver...@gmail.com
<mailto:olivier.auver...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> I think that it could be interesting to use it also on a simple
HTML page for the Pharo web site. This document can be put in the main
menu ("Beginners" ?) just before "Documentation".
>
> It's really cool to have a synthesis document for the newcomers.
I still have a little Squeak booklet that we could redo for Pharo. It
was very useful when I was learning.
I'm about to update the syntax squeak flyers we did a long ago.
Stef
Phil
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> 2016-04-09 8:09 GMT+02:00 Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com
<mailto:b...@openinworld.com>>:
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>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Damien Pollet
<damien.pol...@gmail.com <mailto:damien.pol...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > On 8 April 2016 at 22:57, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu
<mailto:s...@stfx.eu>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Since we are simpler and more logical, a cheat sheet should not
confuse
>> >> people by describing what we are not.
>> >
>> >
>> > I beg to disagree. "Simpler and more logical" is just your biased
point of
>> > view; fact is, zero-based indexing is just more widespread in
programming
>> > languages.
>> >
>> > I would be happy to be proven wrong about that, but I seriously
doubt most
>> > people that come to Smalltalk have never been exposed to
programming before.
>> > It's not unreasonable to assume that they've started programming
in any one
>> > of the most popular languages these days, and that that language is
>> > zero-indexed. So mentioning that in Smalltalk the first element
is indeed at
>> > index 1 is pretty essential, if just to lift the ambiguity.
>>
>> +1. But to follow Sven's point exactly. We don't need to say we are
>> "not 0 based", just that we are "1 based".
>>
>> cheers -ben
>>
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