[Newbies] How to shorten a method (using inject: into: ?)
stan shepherd
squeak414 at free.fr
Tue Jul 22 15:51:53 UTC 2008
Zulq Alam-2 wrote:
>
> Using #inject:into and Point objects to store the totals:
>
> testMaleMeiosis4
> | totals |
> totals := Forecaster testMale meiose inject: 0 at 0 into:
> [:subtotals :strand |
> subtotals + (strand maternalCount @ strand maternalCount)].
> self should: [totals = 100 at 100]
>
> The point notation makes it look very clean (to me).
>
I agree it's very tidy looking.
Is there a style issue with introducing an object type which is not part of
the problem? Is point often used like this- it's being treated as a
shorthand form of an array of 2 elements which has some handy methods, is it
not?
...Stan
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