On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, James Stark wrote:

> I thought I would just ask this smalltalk list a couple of questions - I am 
> new to smalltalk and this list has been highly recommended in solving most 
> smalltalk problems - guess its because all of you are smalltalk gods or 
> something... anyways... here it goes.
> 
> I have a record subclass declared as follows:
> 
> Object subclass: #RECORD - I have various methods for this.
> 
> I want to make an array of records - so its one array that stores of type 
> records - which I have defined
> 
> I have tried the following:
> 
> OrderedCollection subclass: #People
.....

A simple possible solution (the actual solution depends on what
you might want to achieve, maybe you give additional details):

Do a subclass 'Person' of Object with methods like name, date of birth,
adress, hobby and so one.

Use a dictionary (correponds to a hash in Perl) to store the persons.

people _ Dictionary new.

p _ Person new.
p firstname: 'James'.
p name: 'Stark'
p hobby: 'Squeak'.

people at: 1234 put: p.


Or if you like to keep the ordering:

people _ OrderedCollection new.
people add: p.
 
Depending on what you want to do with your person collection you might
need to write a so-called wrapper, an object which wraps either a
dictionary or an ordered collection and shows accessor methods to the
collection only.

Cheers
Hannes Hirzel