Why #inject:withBinary?  I don't understand the 'binary' part of it.

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	agree at carltonfields.com [SMTP:agree at carltonfields.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 19, 2000 5:02 PM
> To:	Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent); squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	RE: (1 to: self) inject: 1 into: #*
> 
> > Second, IIRC we went through an exercise a while back to get > rid of
> message
> > implementations in various classes which, while they were > useful,
> served
> > mostly as crutches and/or bandages for problems elsewhere in > the
> image.
> > (Someone else will have to chime in with specifics here, as I > was only
> an
> > observer of this process).  Slapping bits of Collection protocol
> > (specifically #value:value:) into Symbol seems to me to be a > step
> backwards
> > in this regard.  
> 
> Indeed.  Why overload #inject:into:?  How about instead using
> #inject:withBinary: for the alternative form?