Whither SmallScript? (was Re: Integer micro-benchmarks)

[Darren New]

Andrew Hunt wrote:
> > What do the vertical bars around the f  ("|f|") above indicate ?
> A local variable to the block, used to pass the parameter from File.new.

It's been too long since I used Smalltalk, but doesn't |f| inside a
smalltalk block declare a block-local temporary, rather than an argument? I
thought it was something like

 [ f: g: |q r| code goes here ]
that says "f" and "g" are arguments, q and r are temps?

If I'm remembering right, I'd say it's a minor faux pas to use syntax from
Smalltalk and have it mean something subtly different.

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