[self-interest] Questions about implied self

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 17:48:49 UTC 2011


Yeah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now:)

On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:47 AM, "Jecel Assumpcao Jr." <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:

> Casey,
> 
> > I may be suffering from flatulent gray matter; I read this in the handbook, section 2.3.3:
> > 
> > Associativity. Keyword messages associate from right to left, so
> > 
> > 5 min: 6 min: 7 Max: 8 Max: 9 min: 10 Max: 11
> > 
> > is interpreted as
> > 
> > 5 min: (6 min: 7 Max: 8 Max: (9 min: 10 Max: 11)) 
> 
> You are probably right and it is my memory that is incorrect. I thought
> that something like "5 min: 6 min: 7" would be considered a syntax error
> and you would be forced to add parenthesis to get it to parse (another
> small Self/Smalltalk-80 difference: what is called the compiler in
> Smalltalk-80 is known as the parser in Self so that the term compiler
> can be used for the bytecode-to-machine code translator).
> 
> Looking at my 1993 tinySelf 0 code, I see that it would indeed parse the
> above as "5 min: (6 min: 7)" without any errors. So at one time I knew
> this :-)
> 
> Sorry about the confusion,
> -- Jecel
> 
> 
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