>>> >> >> Arg, I pressed tab, then (oops) space and sent the message too soon... >> I wanted to add this comment: >> "Sort the collection in place if possible, otherwise answer a sorted >> Array. >> Subclasses that can sort in place should override this message." >> > > Interesting. Possibly good. But what would you do when you knew you > wanted a *copy* that was sorted? "myCollection copy sort" would work, > but might or might not create two copies, depending on whether the > original class was one that could be sorted in place. > > I'm now leaning toward defining #copySorted or some such on Collection > for this purpose. And *maybe* also doing what you propose with #sort.
+ 1 This is good it means that the solution is not obvious :) _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
