[ANSI-Smalltalk] Behaviour of #collect:

[Eliot Miranda]

Sorry.  I meant to suggest collect:from: as an alternative spelling of
withAll:collect:.  I find collect:from: more intention-revealing than
withAll:collect:.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz>wrote:

>
> On 23 Sep 2008, at 4:40 am, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
>  what about
>>     Collection class collect: aBlock from: aCollection
>> e.g.
>>     Array collect: [:each | each codePoint] from: 'abc'
>> ?
>>
>>  Because there isn't any #collect:from: in the Smalltalks
> I use.  I've already mentioned the operation I added,
> which is named consistently with the ANSI methods, namely
>        <class> withAll: collection collect: aBlock
> This also goes with
>        <collection> addAll: collection collect: aBlock
>
> #withAll:collect: is nice, and I'd like to see it in the
> new standard, but it's long winded and it's limiting.
>
>
>
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