Smalltalk Accent

Some examples I can think of:

• Using closures as effortlessly as breathing, like

somecondition ifTrue: [ trueblock ] ifFalse: [ falseblock ].


• Using (or thinking in terms of or wanting to use) sophisticated higher-order collection functions, such as collect: select: etc.

• Using small, almost insignificant methods to maximize refactoring (even before we knew what to call it) and explanation.

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I HaveThisPattern (have these patterns, even) and I don't even know Smalltalk. Too much PerlLanguage and CommonLisp can spoil you for ever if you have to use Java afterwards. Perhaps this page should be titled "FunctionalAccent"? -DanBarlow