On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 10:04 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > enabled by this extension, replacing > > all sorts of specialized collection methods > > What are you thinking of?
Mostly the methods that answer slices of varying kinds from seq-collections. > I should add that MappedCollection is also a powerful tool with this > respect, since basically > > MappedCollection collection: foo map: aCollection > > is a lazy version of "foo atAll: aCollection". For Intervals, using a > MappedCollection may save lots of memory. I always get the order of these confused when I think about MappedCollections, so I have to read the docs to refresh. I'll come up with a mnemonic eventually, but for now blame #collection:map: as a selector. -- ;;; Stephen Compall ** http://scompall.nocandysw.com/blog ** "^aCollection allSatisfy: [:each | aCondition]" is the true idiom
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