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I am moving to Chapter 2 now, which for some strange reason I skipped.


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:19 AM, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote:

> oh yes I completely missed the "examples" option. Great ! One thing less
> to worry about , thanks Ben :)
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  kilon alios wrote:
>>
>> In section 1.9  page 18 there is this text
>>
>>    "At other times you may have a good idea that a method exists, but
>> will have no idea what it might be called. The method finder can still
>> help! For example, suppose that you would like to find a method that turns
>> a string into upper case, for example, it would translate 'eureka' into
>> 'EUREKA'.
>>
>>   The method finder will suggest a method that does what you want.8
>>
>> An asterisk at the beginning of a line in the right pane of the method
>> finder indicates that this method is the one that was actually used to
>> obtain the requested result. So, the asterisk in front of String
>> asUppercase lets us know that the method asUppercase defined on the
>> class String was executed and returned the result we wanted. The methods
>> that do not have an asterisk are just the other methods that have the same
>> name as the ones that returned the expected result. So Character»asUppercase
>> was not executed on our example, because 'eureka' is not a Character object.
>>
>>
>> You can also use the method finder for methods with arguments; for
>> example, if you are looking for a method that will find the greatest common
>> factor of two integers, you might try 25. 35. 5 as an example. You can
>> also give the method finder multiple examples to narrow the search space;
>> the help text in the bottom pane explains how. "
>>
>> I tried " 'eureka' . 'EUREKA '" and the other suggestion it does not seem
>> to work , should I remove this section ?
>>
>> It works for me...
>> * World > Tools > Finder
>> * Type...   'eureka' . 'EUREKA'
>> * Change [Selectors] to [Examples]
>>
>>
>>
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