[comp.lang.smalltalk] format removing necessary parentheses

khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) (04/09/90)

nick@abccam.abcl.co.uk (Nick Reeves) writes:

->If I ask the system browser to format source I sometimes find that
->necessary parentheses are removed. The simplest example I have found
->is that of defining the following method:

->self at: ( self at: 1; at: 1 )

->Does anyone have a fix for this, or know of related problems. I am using
->Smalltalk-80 on an Acorn R140.

1) This is a bug in the formatter in version 2.3 of Smalltalk-80. Your
example formats correctly in version 2.5.

2) The Acorn port is not a ParcPlace Systems product. You should
contact your vendor.
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