[ANSI-Smalltalk] List of interesting methods, Collection only

[Andres Valloud]

Oops!  Thank you for the correction.

Andres.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Dennis Smith <dennis at cherniaksoftware.com>
wrote:

>
>
> Andres Valloud wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Paolo's list had the following messages for Collection (note the list is
> subsequently trimmed below).
>
> Collection class>>join:
> Collection>>anyOne
> Collection>>copyReplacing:withObject:
> Collection>>copyWith:
> Collection>>copyWithout:
> Collection>>count:
> Collection>>empty
> Collection>>fold:
> Collection>>gather:
> Collection>>identityIncludes:
> Collection>>isEmpty
> Collection>>isSequenceable
> Collection>>noneSatisfy:
> Collection>>notEmpty
> Collection>>occurrencesOf:
> Collection>>removeAll:
> Collection>>removeAll:ifAbsent:
> Collection>>removeAllSuchThat:
> Collection>>size
>
>
> >From the above, I think the following are good candidates:
>
> Collection>>copyReplacing:withObject: (perhaps renamed to
> copyReplacing:with:)
>  Collection>>copyWith:
> Collection>>copyWithout:
> Collection>>count:
> Collection>>fold: (I know Squeak does not have this)
> Collection>>noneSatisfy: (renamed to noneSatisfies:?)
>
> >From a strictly english standpoint, "none satifsy" is correct.  You only
> use "satisifies" with "one",
> so it should stay as-is.
>
> Collection>>removeAllSuchThat: (I'd prefer to use the selectors
> eject:/keep:)
>
>
> I also have questions about these:
>
> Collection>>empty (isn't this removeAll?)
> Collection>>gather: (what's this?)
> Collection>>removeAll: (what is the argument?)
> Collection>>removeAll:ifAbsent:
>
>
> I do not have much of an opinion on these:
>
> Collection>>anyOne (perhaps renamed to #any)
> Collection>>identityIncludes:
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Andres.
>
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