Would be nice to have a video with that. Phil
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Martin McClure <mar...@hand2mouse.com> wrote: > On 11/29/2016 06:48 PM, Bruce Prior wrote: > > I have been away from smalltalk coding for a while. On returning to the > fold, I often see the use of a right arrow in code. Is this something new? > > Today in a Teapot app example, I saw, > > Teapot on GET: '/welcome' -> 'Hello World!'; start. > > What is the arrow for? > > As Sebastian said, #-> is a message that creates an Association, with the > receiver as the key and the argument as the value of the Association. This > has actually been around a very long time, though perhaps it's getting more > widely used these days. It doesn't appear to be in the Blue Book, but I > think it was probably actually in the Smalltalk-80 image 1 release. > > I'm not *quite* curious enough to verify that by rooting around in my > basement for the machine that actually runs that version and seeing if it > will still power up after all these years. :-) > > Regards, > > -Martin >
