[ANSI-Smalltalk] Behaviour of #collect:

[Andres Valloud]

I'd rather do this as well.  It seems to me it's natural (?) to expect
that some cases of collect: will behave in an interesting manner, such
as with strings and byte arrays.

Andres.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> If that is what it takes to make #collect: work the way you want, then
> I don't want it to work that way.  In my opinion, you are making the
> implementation very complicated for only a slight improvement in
> behavior.
>
> I would rather just say "aString asArray collect: [:each | each
> codePoint]" when I want #collect: to return an array.
>
> -Ralph
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