On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Steve Swerling wrote:

> Ok,
>
> Perhaps it was all the cough syrup I had that morning. Or was it was
> something in the air here in NYC, still with that faint odor of burning
> plastic? Maybe it was some age-related cortical cramping.
>
> I must say it's impressive to see the lengths to which a guy will go in
> order to mock a stupid question. Do you think you could whip up a little
> GUI to help me visualize your data? A pie chart might go nicely with the
> egg on my face...

C'mon Steve, it's called humor ;-)

And in this case, it's a quite educating one. I guess a lot of newbies on
the list learned how to get some object statistics from Randal's
one-liner, maybe even discovered a not-so-often-used Collection class. Or,
they might try evaluating "Point instanceCount" a few times in a row and
think about why the numbers differ.

Besides, Randal, my image has more Points than yours :-)

-- Bert

> "Randal L. Schwartz" wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Raab <Andreas.Raab at gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > Andreas> What makes you think so?! It's kind of reporting that your
> > Andreas> image has thousand of instances of Point in there. There's
> > Andreas> nothing wrong with it.
> >
> > My goodness.  You're right!  There are 23485 Points in my image!
> > I don't see them all on the screen!  There must be something wrong!
> >
> > in fact, I have
> >
> >     627->0 at 0
> >     214->1.0 at 1.0
> >     213->0.5 at 0.5
> >     105->1 at 0
> >     103->2 at 0
> >     91->3 at 3
> >     66->3 at 4
> >     47->-14 at 23
> >     41->0 at 12
> >     40->0 at 1
> >
> > Wow.  Look at all those 0 at 0's!  Must be something broken!
> >
> > "Point allInstances asBag sortedCounts copyFrom: 1 to: 10"