[Newbies] Re: [Q] Best way of doing ...

[Klaus D. Witzel]

On Tue, 05 May 2009 15:29:30 +0200, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:

> People:
> I need a way for two collections of different size could be tested for  
> all elements in both.

A quick and dirty (a prototype) is, to put both into the same new  
IdentitySet (or set, depends on your #=) and then just compare sizes.

Then you also don't need to sort, the set (of both) will free you from  
sorting. And #copyWithoutAll: can then give you things in B which are not  
in A, etc.

HTH.

> Example:
>
> A  := #(a1 a2 a3).
> B := #(b1 b2 b3 b4 b5).
>
> Some similar to
>
> with: otherCollection do: twoArgBlock
>     "Evaluate twoArgBlock with corresponding elements from this  
> collection
>     and otherCollection."
>     otherCollection size = self size
>
> But for different size
>
> Very thanks

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