Comments on: A Taste of Nested Classes, intermission http://blog.3plus4.org/2009/02/22/a-taste-of-nested-classes-intermission/ The neighbourhood of 7 Wed, 12 May 2010 16:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jörg W Mittag http://blog.3plus4.org/2009/02/22/a-taste-of-nested-classes-intermission/comment-page-1/#comment-1564 Jörg W Mittag Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:10:52 +0000 http://blog.3plus4.org/?p=131#comment-1564 Ola Bini's new language Ioke (http://Ioke.Org/) implements literals similarly to the way you describe. Basically, literals are just syntactic sugar for message sends. For example, a literal list: [1, 2, 3] is actually syntactic sugar for [](1, 2, 3) (i.e. the message '[]' with three arguments) Ola Bini’s new language Ioke (http://Ioke.Org/) implements literals similarly to the way you describe. Basically, literals are just syntactic sugar for message sends.

For example, a literal list:

[1, 2, 3]

is actually syntactic sugar for

[](1, 2, 3)

(i.e. the message ‘[]‘ with three arguments)

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