On today's podcast we covered two topics:

• The new Timer/Delay work that's going into the next release (affecting both VisualWorks and ObjectStudio)
• The Brace Constructor discussion in the vwnc mailing list that took place recently.

The motivation for the Timer work was simple: changing the wall clock time in Smalltalk could impact running Delays. That's bad enough when you change the clock manually, but it can be catastrophic in some circumstances (process control comes to mind), where you have the system clock being updated regularly by an NTP service.

The second topic has to do with this add on syntax that has been imported from Squeak (but not integrated with any of the tools) in a goodie:

This:

{ statement1, statement2, statement3 ... }

Can be used instead of:

Array
	with: statement1
	with: statement2
	...

Recognizing that the #with: pattern only goes up to four. In any event, we discussed how useful (or not) the Brace syntax is - we'd be happy to get your take on that as well.

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