ST 4U 387: Cascades and yourself
Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at cascades and #yourself. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:
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Using Smalltalk, you'll often run across the cascade syntax:
ct := CTest new. ct options add: 1; add: 2; add: 3; add: 4; yourself
Here we have a small class with an instance variable, and the variable holds a collection. The use of #add: is followed by a cadcade (the semi-colon). What that does is ensure that the next message (#add: in this case) is sent back to the original receiver (the collection) rather than to the return object (#add: answers the object sent).
So in the example above, without the #yourself at the end, the last message send would answer 4 rather than the collection.
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