On 10 March 2010 15:07, Nicolas Cellier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> self collect: aBlock as: Set
>

One more time, i found this very beatiful and useful extension to
Collection protocol.
And i am proud being a witness when this thing is born! :)

> 2010/3/10 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>:
>> Hi. I was needing something like the SQL select distinct, that doesn't take
>> into account repeated objects. I didn't found anything useful in Collection,
>> and thus, I have implemented this:
>>
>> Collection >> collectDistinct: aBlock
>>
>>
>> collectDistinct: aBlock
>>     "Evaluate aBlock with each of the receiver's elements as the argument.
>>     Collect the resulting values into a Set, thus repeated objects will not
>> be present.
>>     Answer the new collection."
>>
>>     | newSet |
>>     newSet := self species new asSet.
>>     self do: [:each | newSet add: (aBlock value: each)].
>>     ^ newSet
>>
>>
>> Is there a better way ?   Do you think it make sense to put this in Pharo ?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mariano
>>
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