> Dear Mr. Blacktooth,
> 
> It's OK to ask questions, there's no need to hide behind an alias ;-)
> Compared to Dan and the others from the LRG days were all newbies at this!

Heheh. No intention to hide. This is just my favorite mail account, and
I've never gotten around to changing my info. Here is some basic info:

name: Robert Shiflett
age: 32
married w/ one son (4)
Partial college  (about to start back (son's birth and wife's schooling
interrupted))
I live in a town about 45 miles west of Atlanta Georgia called Carrollton.

My first computer was a Vic-20, then an Apple IIe. Played around with
those for many years till I discovered the Internet sometime around
'89-'90. There is where I first ran into a programming language other
than BASIC or assembler. It was the internal language on Xerox's
LambdaMOO. I've been hopping around from language to language ever since.
I think Smalltalk is gonna stick.

> I still think there's a good deal of room for making your code more
> Smalltalk-like. This is no end in itself; it will also become much shorter
> and clearer. In particular, you can exploit the power of the Collection
> classes; using loops instead of the Collection protocol is a common symptom
> of someone coming from traditional languages.


Yeah, I'm still trying to get comfortable with 'Collection do:'. Some
older code is still sprinkled with '1 to: (Collection size) do:' that
are needless.

Thanks for the examples. Gonna see if I can assimilate them now.


BT