> I'm having trouble understanding the '>>' in some Smalltalk programs, Such
> as this, from Smalltalk By Example:
>
> MyClass>>doThis
> array := Array new: 3.
> array at: 1 put: 2.
>
> I can understand that we are creating a new 3-place instance of Array, named
> array, and putting 2 in the first slot. But I don't understand what MyClass,
> >>, or doThis are doing.

The ">>" is just a way of indicating that you're talking about a message name.

In your example, MyClass is the class name, and doThis is the message
name. You'll never actually enter the ">>" when defining a message,
instead you'd put the code in the doThis message of MyClass in the
browser.

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You will also sometimes see something like:

Person class >> new

When someone is writing about code. This means that you should look on the
class side of Person for the method #new. People will also indicate the
method name with a symbol (for example #new) if they are writing the method
name in-lined in a sentence.

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