Re: [sc-users] smalltalk

[James McCartney <asynth@xxxxxx>]

On Dec 26, 2004, at 5:57 PM, Tom Gersic wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> So I've seen in a few places that the Supercollider language is based 
> on Smalltalk. However, from every example of Smalltalk that I've been 
> able to find, the syntax looks entirely different. Out of curiosity, 
> why the discrepancy?

SC is based on the object model of Smalltalk, not the syntax.
SC uses a different syntax than Smalltalk because Smalltalk syntax does 
not allow for:

default arguments
var-args ( "..." in SC)
out-of-order keyword arguments

Smalltalk has a keyword syntax. If you are going to have keyword 
arguments then I think they should be allowed in any order. But 
Smalltalk doesn't.