Blocking queries?

[Chris Muller]

Hi Sebastian, this is explained in the documentation here:

  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5859

under the heading "Sorting".

On 10/31/07, Sebastian Sastre <ssastre at seaswork.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi there,
>
>     I saw some strange result when I use some code like this:
>
> someMagmaCollection
>     where:[:reader|
>         reader
>         read: #companyName
>         to:'ZZZ']
>     distinct: true
>     sortBy: #companyName
>     descending: false.
>
> then the result of that is used like:
>
> queryResult
>     copyFrom: firstDesiredItemOfResult
>     to: lastDesiredItemOfResult
>
> this last message is returning instantaneusly an empty array when in fact
> should not be empty. And seems to be only for the first send because if I
> resend the message, for instance manually in the debugger, I do get the
> right results for the next N (re)sends.
>
>     How is expected to reach the result when you ask for it waiting for it
> if necessary?
>
>     cheers,
>
>
>
> Sebastian Sastre
>
>
>
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