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

[Andres Valloud]

Found a much better one: preclude.

to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The
insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.

And perhaps there's even better ones...

Andres.

PS: www.dictionary.com.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Andres Valloud <andres.valloud at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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. :-)
> >
> >
> > 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 "
> >
> > 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
> >
> >        NotAllSatisfy: [:x| x _endsWith: 'fy']
> > and
> >        AnySatisfy: [:x| x _endsWith: 'fies'].
> > are.
> >
> >
> > (Hobgoblins not withwithstanding.)
> >
> > -Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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