Hi, Gather seems excellent. Could not find it. Don't need the nil check.
Thanks, Kind Regards, Bart On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Julian Fitzell <[email protected]> wrote: > Fyi, PackageInfo (and thus base Pharo currently) defines > Collection>>gather: which has basically this behaviour (minus the nil > check). I had this marked as a method for discussion when going > through the VASt/Pharo collection protocols. > > I think #collectAll: is problematic as a selector because "All:" > suggests a collection passed as a parameter. > > Another possible pattern would be to model after :flatten in Ruby, > though it operates recursively, so it might not be the best name here. > Maybe #gather: is actually fine. > > Julian > > 2009/12/26 Bart Gauquie <[email protected]>: > > Dear all, > > Another one was: > > Set>>collectAll: aBlock > > | newSet | > > newSet := Set new: self size. > > array do: [:each | each ifNotNil: [newSet addAll: (aBlock value: > each)]]. > > ^ newSet > > > > In analogy with addAll: aCollection. If useful, maybe we should provide a > > more general implementation for Collection instead of only Set I needed > so > > far. > > Kind Regards, > > Bart > > -- > > imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein > > Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere - > > Albert Einstein > > Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important > thing > > is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein > > The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert > > Einstein > > Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert > Einstein > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere - Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert Einstein Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
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