Thanks Ned and Bob- I am once again on speaking terms with my trusty 
mac(k)intosh.
Hari
On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 09:20  PM, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 January 2002 02:47 pm, Hari Balaraman wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm attempting to learn Smalltalk and would like to post a small
>> question. I apologise in advance if this is is not the appropriate 
>> forum
>> for basic questions. Is so please point me in the direction of the
>> relevant forum. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks much,
>>
>> Hari
>>
>> what follows is the method I wrote for the following problem:  write an
>> array in which each element is the square of the corresponding element
>> in the receiver array. I cannot find out what I am doing wrong:
>>
>> arraySquared
>>
>> 	|squarearray |
>>
>> 	squarearray := Array new: (self size).
>> 		1 	to self size
>> 			do: [:index | squarearray at: index put:((self at:
>> index)*(self at: index))].
>> 	^ squarearray
>
> You should say instead:
>
>          1 to: self size
>
> (you forgot the : at the end of the to).
>
> Or you could just do this:
>
> arraySquared
>     ^self collect: [ :ea | ea * ea ]
>
> --
> Ned Konz
> currently: Stanwood, WA
> email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
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>