Yes, this can be surprising at first. But I think this is because you read it with a preformated Smalltalk mind, rather than just english. it's just like:
(1 to: 10) select: #even. Nicolas 2010/10/10 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr>: > personnally I do not like this form > What does it do? > >> process ifNotNil: #terminate. > > > for me it means passes the symbol #terminate as argument to the method > ifNotNil: > If it has a more magical behavior then I do not know it. > > Stef > > >> The compiler uselessly insist on #ifNotNil: argument being a zero/one arg >> block. >> Thus we cannot write this xtream sentence >> >> process ifNotNil: #terminate. >> >> When the argument is not a block, Compiler should avoid inlining and >> just send a normal message. >> >> cheers >> >> Nicolas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
