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First of all, this is not a blog which will teach you Smalltalk, rather it is an online notepad of my attempts to learn the language. Look upon this blog as a list of sudden insights and moments of overcoming stupidity!

21/08/2008

Exception handling - oh, that's how it works

The general idea behind exception handling is that you assume everything works, and so you don't check return values.
Posted by Andy Burnett at 16:55

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