[Newbies] using collect on a ReadStream
Norbert Hartl
norbert at hartl.name
Tue Oct 30 07:20:21 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 08:03 +0100, Oscar Nierstrasz wrote:
> Hi Norbert,
>
> Streams don't support the collection protocols. You can convert a
> stream to a collection by sending #contents to the stream:
>
> stream := (ReadStream on: #( #(#a #b) #(#b #c))).
> stream contents collect: [:each| 'k',each first] --> #('ka' 'kb')
>
> Is that what you want?
>
Sure, it works :) What I do not understand is that a lot of the
collection protocol is in ReadStream. It has detect: select:
collect: includes: ... What is it for?
thanks,
Norbert
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