[Cuis-dev] Double colon syntax

[Nicola Mingotti]

I learnt it very recently, probably updating one of Ken documents, it 
was in his examples.

I would say, I LOVE IT, less parenthesis, more readability, Unix piping 
thinking.

Something similar has been done in Clojure (discovered 2 days ago), same 
principle, cool stuff.

I envy you that you can study the syntax from reading the source code, 
really !
But on the other side this is BAD. It means we are not documenting well 
our fundamentals.

I plan to add a page to the Cuis-Cookbook about funky syntaxes as soon 
as time permits.


bye
Nicola








On 1/6/22 02:03, Mariano Montone via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I discovered double colon syntax today, when I came across Parser
> class>>chainExamplesDoubleColon method.
>
> Looks like this:
>
> 3 + 4 :: negated  " => -7 "
>
> How many of you already knew about it?
>
> Is it something specific to Cuis? Is it available in other Smalltalks
> too (perhaps in some other form)?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mariano