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43: Mainline

The show: message appears throughout the rest of this book because you will find it is helpful, when you are learning Smalltalk, to display the results of intermediate computations as well as final answers. Thus, you often see combinations that consist of an expression to be evaluated in a workspace, along with the result of evaluation, produced via right > Do It, in the transcript:

Workspace
Transcript show: 1746 printString 
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