Is symbol may contain a value? 2009/4/8 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com>: > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Andrey Larionov <anlario...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Two test in FontTest assumes what TextStyle>>default will answer a >> some Accuny font with some size. But if we override default font - >> test will fail. I'll try to find solution and fix, but new vm and >> image crashed during debuging. >> I think solution will be to create corresponding TextStyle for test. >> >> Also i'm a newbie and can some clarify what is DefaultTextStyle? It >> not declared as instance or class variable. > > I am also a but newbie but I think that's a symbol Is it actually > #DefaultTextStyle ? > > If true, yes, it would probably be a symbol. A symbol, as Squeak By Example > says is: > > " > Symbols are like Strings, in that they contain a sequence of characters. > However, unlike a string, a literal symbol is guaranteed to be globally > unique. There is only one Symbol object #Hello but there may be > multiple String objects with the value 'Hello'. > " > > See SBE for more documentation. > > However, if there is something that it is not a class neither a class > variable, it can be a global variable. For example, do a expect it of > Smalltalk. You may think Smalltalk is a class, but it doesn't. It is global > variable. Indeed it is an object of SystemDirectory. > > Cheers, > > Mariano > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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