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

[Andres Valloud]

Hmmmmm... without meaning to propose the following seriously, perhaps it
would have been better to use an antonym of satisfy thus avoiding explicit
negation...

allFail: aBlock
anyFails: aBlock

... perhaps with a different verb.  I tried looking for suitable
alternatives for a moment, but didn't find any that suited my fancy.

Andres.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:33 PM, cstb <jas at cruzio.com> wrote:

> At 12:51 AM 3/22/2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >Andres Valloud wrote:
> >>Oops!  Thank you for the correction.
> >
> >Actually both are correct.  I asked on
> http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language (search for
> "None") and started a tiny flame war. :-)
>
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> AllSatisfy:     " for all x, ... is true "
> AnySatisfy:     " there exists x such that ... is true "
>
> NotAllSatisfy:  " there exists x such that ... is false "
> NotAnySatisfy:  " for all x, ... is false "
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> NoneSatisfy: " for all x, ... is false "
>
> The first three, and then either or both
> of the last two, above, would satisfy me.
>
> Because
>        AllSatisfy: [:x| x _endsWith: 'fy']
> and
>        NoneSatisfy: [:x| x _endsWith: 'fies']
>
> is easier to remember than
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>        NotAllSatisfy: [:x| x _endsWith: 'fy']
> and
>        AnySatisfy: [:x| x _endsWith: 'fies'].
> are.
>
>
> (Hobgoblins not withwithstanding.)
>
> -Jim
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