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However, both are incompatible and not supported by most other dialects, which use the |
However, both are incompatible and not supported by most other dialects, which use the historic Smalltalk-80 chunk format: |
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<lang smalltalk>!Number methodsFor:'math'! |
<lang smalltalk>!Number methodsFor:'math'! |
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my_factorial |
my_factorial |
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^ (self < 2) ifTrue:[1] ifFalse:[ self * (self-1) my_factorial] |
^ (self < 2) ifTrue:[1] ifFalse:[ self * (self-1) my_factorial] |
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! !</lang> |
! !</lang> |
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This chunk format is supported by all systems, but it is somewhat ugly to read and also needs exclamation marks to be doubled (which looks especially bad in string literals). |
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So in which dialect's fileOut format should the example be presented to be most convenient, readable, and to be repeatable in case someone wants to try Smalltalk? |
So in which dialect's fileOut format should the example be presented to be most convenient, readable, and to be repeatable in case someone wants to try Smalltalk? |
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