> Was this convention carried over by Steve Byrne, or
someone else, from
> the Blue Book?
I took it from the Black Book, "IBM Smalltalk: The
Language" by David N.
Smith. I would not be surprised if it dated back to the
blue book.
I think "answer" captures the message-sending (as
opposed to
method-calling) spirit of Smalltalk very well. That's
another reason
why it might very well be as ancient as the Blue Book or
even earlier
Smalltalks. (There's a Smalltalk-76 article somewhere on
the net, a
quick check could be interesting).
Paolo
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