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This chapter presents more of the Smalltalk language. Section two considers the representation and use of numbers in Smalltalk while Section three considers strings and characters. Section four discusses variables in Smalltalk and Section five literals and variables. Sections six considers messages, message types and their precedence.

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Hunt, J. (1997). Smalltalk Constructs. In: Smalltalk and Object Orientation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0961-7_7

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