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Bob Hutchison

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Nickname: bobhutch
Registered: Aug, 2005

Bob Hutchison has been developing software for a long time, currently at Recursive Design Inc.
A Little Unnecessary Smalltalk Envy Posted: Nov 22, 2007 9:51 PM
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In A Little Head Trauma…: Returning None is Evil, Mark Derricutt provoked a brief moment of Smalltalk envy. (self doSomethingThatMightReturnNil) ifNotNil: [val | val doSomethingWithNoHassle]. In addition to what Mark was actually responding to, it is an annoyance that I’ve had repeatedly in Ruby but never really considered fixing. Until now. The annoying code: tmp = doSomethingThatMightReturnNil tmp.doSomethingWithNoHassle if [...]

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