Name: Anonymous 2010-07-27 4:19
Pardon my unscientific ignorance, but I have two smalltalk questions:
(1) Is it the norm to derive API documentation from code comments? I find it infuriating there's little-to-no documentation for some Smalltalk implementations.
(2) Is the "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation" book really as godlike as suggested? I've been browsing through the first few chapters after figuring out the syntax (I'm a Ruby japophile, so Smalltalk is pretty easy to figure out) and it has struck me quite odd that I couldn't find info on defining either a class or a method. Finally figured this out by doing some Object reflection and reading stuff online.
Sorry, but Smalltalk documentation isn't proving as forthcoming and easy as Java/Ruby/C++, etc. and I am confused.
(1) Is it the norm to derive API documentation from code comments? I find it infuriating there's little-to-no documentation for some Smalltalk implementations.
(2) Is the "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation" book really as godlike as suggested? I've been browsing through the first few chapters after figuring out the syntax (I'm a Ruby japophile, so Smalltalk is pretty easy to figure out) and it has struck me quite odd that I couldn't find info on defining either a class or a method. Finally figured this out by doing some Object reflection and reading stuff online.
Sorry, but Smalltalk documentation isn't proving as forthcoming and easy as Java/Ruby/C++, etc. and I am confused.