Wait why is the GNU Smalltalk reference documentation written in the first person
https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/html_node/Collection.html
Wait why is the GNU Smalltalk reference documentation written in the first person
https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/html_node/Collection.html
@mcc
@0xabad1deaabadidea all smalltalks do this; the idea is that each class speaks for itself, in the code as “self” and in the documentation as me/I. Twisted tried to adopt this idiom (my dad was a smalltalk programmer in the 80s, and it rubbed off a bit) but everyone else objected so much that it never caught on. I still wish it had.
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Smalltalk의 클래스 레퍼런스 문서는 스스로를 기술할 때 일인칭을 쓴다고 한다. “나는 추상 클래스입니다. 내 인스턴스들은 객체의 컬렉션입니다” 같은 식.