occam@cnam.UUCP (occam) (02/24/90)
I am interested in getting my hands on agood smalltalk/V-smalltalk/286 reference book. Does such a book or somethig similar exist ? *********************************************************************** * Rodrigo Laurens * * e-mail occam@cnam.UUCP * ***********************************************************************
srm@hardees.rutgers.edu (Scott R. Myers) (03/09/90)
I also would like some suggestions on smalltalk books particularly in
the OS/2 environment. Thank you.
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>>>2 Hype<<<johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu (03/09/90)
Peter da Silva <peter@ficc.uu.net> says: >I have thought that the Smalltalk syntax for defining a new class was >a bit inconsistent with the rest of the language. In my opinion, Smalltalk doesn't have any syntax for defining a new class. It is just an accident that the browser uses a method to create a class. It would be just as reasonable for it to have a special fill-in-the-blank type of form. In fact, the class creation template is really just a cheap imitation for that. (This doesn't mean that I disaprove of the way Smalltalk creates classes.) Actually, I like Peter's idea. It works if you want to make a textual representation for Smalltalk programs, but it is unnecessary if you are happy with the standard hypertext-like definition. The Subclass: message should be easy to implement, but the Method:Is: message would be harder. Ralph Johnson - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign