[self-interest] What does @ mean in Self?

[Russell Allen]

I usually scroll down my entire view with my trackpad on Mac or middle mouse wheel.

I don't know why large lists cause gc issues - there must be some inefficiency in there but I haven't looked into it yet.

Russell

On 24/02/2011, at 3:54 PM, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl at ml1.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Russell Allen wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 24/02/2011, at 10:34 AM, ungar at mac.com wrote:
> >
> > > Just another binary selector.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Duke Normandin wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> From the Tutorial:
> > >>
> > >> 23.1 @ 40.4
> > >> "send @ to 23.1 with arg 40.4"
> > >>
> > >> I cannot seem to find a definition of what the @ symbol means in
> > >> Self.
> >
> > You should be able to highlight the @ in a text box and click to get
> > a menu. Choose the option 'implementors' to get a list of all the
> > implementations of that method. Choose 'senders' to see how the
> > method is used by other objects.
> 
> I did as you suggested! At this point in my exposure to Self, the
> experience was less than rewarding. No matter! I now know how to
> "research" things in Self. The output of selecting 'senders' went off
> the radar it was so large. How does one scroll in an output Morph like
> that? Would have been nice if the window had has a scroll bar. The
> Garbage Collector was working overtime while the output was being sent
> to my screen. What was all that about?
> 
> -- 
> Duke
> 
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