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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions QuickTour/QuickTour.tex
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Expand Up @@ -461,8 +461,8 @@ \section{Workspaces and transcripts}
\end{figure}

You have just evaluated your first \st expression!
You just sent the message \ct{show: 'hello world'} to the \ct{Transcript} object, followed by the message \ct{cr} (carriage return).
The \ct{Transcript} then decided what to do with this message, that is, it looked up its \emph{methods} for handling \ct{show:} and \ct{cr} messages and reacted appropriately.
You just sent the message \ct{showln: 'hello world'} to the \ct{Transcript} object.
The \ct{Transcript} then decided what to do with this message, that is, it looked up its \emph{methods} for handling \ct{showln:} messages and reacted appropriately.

If you talk to Smalltalkers for a while, you will quickly notice that they generally do not use expressions like ``call an operation'' or ``invoke a method'', but instead they will say ``send a message''.
This reflects the idea that objects are responsible for their own actions.
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