Re: [Newbies] Re: Modify block (closure) parameters

2013-08-07 Thread Edwin Castro
On 8/7/13 12:33 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote: On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, psea wrote: What's worried me is that in other languages I'm familiar with it's a normal thing to assign to a function argument (Scheme, C, Python, JavaScript). Storing into a block or method argument is considered bad practice.

Re: [Newbies] Enumeration type implementation

2012-01-04 Thread Edwin Castro
In addition, you might consider using symbols for the name rather than strings. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Ralph Johnson john...@cs.uiuc.edu wrote: That is not bad. However, EpcimCurrency needs more behavior on the instance side. In particular, a currency should know both its name

Re: [Newbies] Float-Subclasses?

2011-06-30 Thread Edwin Castro
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:56 AM, bb bblo...@arcor.de wrote: ** And the home page of squeak remarks: Noteworthy aspects of Squeak include: * A mostly Smalltalk-80 and ANSI Smalltalk X3J20 compatible language and base libraries * ... [snip] If you and the Squeak Organisation do not

Re: [Newbies] Re: Win98SE + Squeak?

2009-08-04 Thread Edwin Castro
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Leandro Juarez leand...@gmail.com wrote: Abort Retry Omitir (sorry don't remember the English translation for that word) For the curious: Omitir = Ignore. -- Edwin G. Castro Ogden Nash http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/ogden_nash.html - The

Re: [Newbies] Misunderstanding Squeak

2008-04-07 Thread Edwin Castro
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, as a beginner, I have noted the many things people have told me about Squeak, but one thing is really bugging me, and I can't break free of it. In my experience programming is a linear task, not object-based, so how do I