[Newbies] Re: How to shorten a method (using inject: into: ?)

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com> writes:

Randal> Huh?  Why the heck is that called #detectSum: instead of just #sum:?

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Randal> /me makes a note to look under #detectFoo: next time

In fact, now that I look at it, it's really not like #detectMax:, which
returns the *original* element that is the max, or #detect:, which returns
an *original* element that meets a test.  It's transformational, more
like #collect.  But since #sum already does that, it really should have
simply been named #sum:.

Sigh.

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