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exampleWithNumber: x | |
"A method that illustrates every part of Smalltalk method syntax | |
except primitives. It has unary, binary, and keyword messages, | |
declares arguments and temporaries, accesses a global variable | |
(but not and instance variable), uses literals (array, character, | |
symbol, string, integer, float), uses the pseudo variables | |
true false, nil, self, and super, and has sequence, assignment, | |
return and cascade. It has both zero argument and one argument blocks." | |
|y| | |
true & false not & (nil isNil) ifFalse: [self halt]. | |
y := self size + super size. | |
#($a #a "a" 1 1.0) | |
do: [:each | Transcript show: (each class name); | |
show: ' ']. | |
^ x < y |
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