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Example

Transcript show: 'Hello World!'.

This will print Hello World! to the Transcript window in Smalltalk. Transcript is the class that allows you to print to the Transcript window by sending the message show: to that object. The colon indicates that this message requires a parameter which is in this case a string. Strings are represented by single quotes and single quotes only since double quotes are reserved for comments in Smalltalk.