Top post: I never once thought about that, and it makes me smile.
On Dec 30, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 2012-12-27, at 01:32, Sebastian Nozzi wrote:
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>> Why do ST methods return "self" if nothing is explicitly returned?
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> One very simple reason has not been stated y
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 2012-12-27, at 01:32, Sebastian Nozzi wrote:
>
>> Why do ST methods return "self" if nothing is explicitly returned?
>
>
> One very simple reason has not been stated yet: In the Virtual Machine,
> returning self is simpler and more ef
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Benjamin Schroeder wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Joseph J Alotta
wrote:
1. If a message does not return self, then you wouldn't be able to chain
messages
together or to cascade messages.
for example:
|s|
s := Sphere new.
On 2012-12-27, at 01:32, Sebastian Nozzi wrote:
> Why do ST methods return "self" if nothing is explicitly returned?
One very simple reason has not been stated yet: In the Virtual Machine,
returning self is simpler and more efficient than returning any other object.
Smalltalk byte codes imple
