[Newbies] How to empty a collection?

[Marcin Tustin]

Isn't Cedrick's aida solution going to be significantly faster?

On Feb 19, 2008 1:02 AM, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:

> Hi Sophie,
>
> aCollection copy do: [:anElement |
>        aCollection remove: anElement
> ].
>
> Why copy?  If you start removing items from the collection, increasing the
> index will cause you to skip elements.
>
> Ron
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: itsme213
> >
> > I want to clear its contents (size goes back to zero), and can't seem to
> > find something like #clear or #empty. Cannot use a new collection as
> there
> > are shared references to it.
> >
> > Thanks - Sophie
>
>
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