[Help-smalltalk] Re: Symbols in array literals

[nicolas cellier]

 #( Yes in VW too ( hehe ) )

Once upon a time in older st80 we had:

 #( nil ) first notNil

Nowadays st80 stiil do not require literal quotes inside literal quote 
array but for #(#true #false #nil).

Nicolas


Mike Anderson a écrit :
> I would really like to be able to dispense with the # in front of
> symbols in array literals. In other words, I would like the following to
> be valid:
>
> #(1 two nil)
>
> I think that Squeak accepts this, and I notice that the STInST compiler
> does too. How about it?
>
> Mike
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --- ../smalltalk-2.3.1/libgst/gst-parse.c       2006-02-05 18:41:34.000000000 
> +0000
> +++ libgst/gst-parse.c  2007-02-23 21:23:18.000000000 +0000
> @@ -832,10 +832,7 @@
>      node = _gst_make_oop_constant (&loc, _gst_nil_oop);
>  
>    else
> -    {
> -      _gst_errorf ("expected true, false or nil");
> -      recover_error (p);
> -    }
> +    node = _gst_make_oop_constant (&loc, symbolOOP);
>  
>    lex (p);
>    return node;
>
>
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