On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 at 07:46, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
> I’m wondering if there are better ways of finding things that I am missing. > > In another thread I was asking about how to wrap the lookup of an item at > an index in a collection. > > I had browsed the collection hierarchy and not seen anything (I kept > coming back to the fact that I dont find the protocol categories very > helpful, particularly in the collection hierarchy). > > I had also used spotter - and to explain - if you type “wrap” into > spotter there are 400 methods that come up, and when you scroll down them, > after about 100 the list starts to go blank (bug?). > > Spotter seems like the key however, but I’m wondering if there is a way to > search for “wrap” methods in a hierarchy (limit it, and not search the full > image)? I tried typing Collection, diving in and typing wrap - but that > doesn’t work. However I thought I had read that there was a way to search > in a hierarchy - but I can seem to work it out? > > (Also - while the show inherited methods in Calypso is useful - I find > it’s not great when you have half a concept in mind as depending on > prefixes and some of the less common naming of things, it can be hard to > find stuff when it’s alphabetical and not filtered. > > So is there a trick I’m missing? > I mentioned in another thread before seeing this post. Try... Tools > Finder > Examples > #(10 20 30 40) . 5 . 10 P.S. It would be good in Exercism to talk students through using this tool. cheers -ben
