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From: carlg@world.std.com (Carl E Gundel)
Subject: Re: Massachusetts Smalltalk Users Group (First Meeting held)
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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 14:46:00 GMT
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John Woods (eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: "John G. Dove and Family" <jdove@tiac.net> writes:

: >As my bumper sticker says:  (Smalltalk love) ifTrue: (car honk)

: As my bumper sticker says:

:   The argument to the 'ifTrue:' keyword is expected to be a zero
:   argument literal block (e.g., [ ... ]).  Your code doesn''t match
:   this pattern.  If your code is correct, proceed, and this expression
:   will not be optimized.  If you want to change it, abort and edit your
:   code.

I thought the correct bumper sticker was:

    self lovesSmalltalk ifTrue: [ self honkHorn ]

After all, I'm supposed to do the honking, right?  :)

Carl

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