[Self-interest] Proposal for a modernized Self dialect

[Randy]

Russel, I tried the same thing at PARC, a third Boolean (in my case dubbed Maybe) in support of extending numbers to include infinitesimal and infinities. 

—Randy


> On Dec 13, 2021, at 6:46 PM, mail at russell-allen.com wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Eric Nijakowski" <eric.nijakowski at web.de>
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> > The way I understand it, the fact that Smalltalk treats "ifTrue:" 
> differently is mostly a compiler issue.
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> Did any of the Smalltalk80s change this? It is a bit of an egregious example of VMs cheating but getting caught.
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> I remember when I first started using Smalltalk (Squeak) I tried to add a sort of ternary logic - ie as well as True and False adding Unknown, and couldn't understand why it didn't work! (maybe if I'd read the manual...)
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> Russell
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