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Instead of displaying results in a workspace, you can arrange for Smalltalk to display results in the transcript, which is really just a special workspace. Conveniently, the transcript appears whenever you activate Smalltalk.

Before you can display a result in the transcript, however, you generally must use the printString method to produce an instance of the String class.

In a workspace, String instances are marked by surrounding quotation marks. Accordingly, when you select 1746 printString, and click right > Show It, you produce the following result:

1746 printString'1746'