> Am I the only one who finds the ruby protocol for accessing
> collections richer at times? In Smalltalk, if ary is an array, how do
> I get ary without its last element?
anArray allButLast
> I know I'm sort of asking for the slaughter of a holy cow: Smalltalk
> only has telling and easy message names all over. Or wait, does it?
> There's of course Class >> #methodName. And 2 @ 3 for points.
There is the method finder, type
#(1 2 3) . #(1 2)
and it should give you the answer.
> Just to put something on the table, how about:
>
> (ary at: 1, -2)
>
> Or, without braces, if you don't mind the reversal:
>
> 1,-2 @ ary
>
> Or, consistent with current naming conventions:
>
> (ary from: 1 to: -2)
See FScript (http://www.fscript.org/), it has quite cool syntax
extensions for array programming.
Lukas
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