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Someone wrote:
	>No one language does all things well, and it is
	>true Smalltalk does iteration particularly badly.
	>But so does Java when you get right down to it.
	
I wonder if this is a case of someone not realising that
the C++ STL "input iterators" and "output iterators" have
good analogues in Smalltalk: ReadStreams and WriteStreams
respectively.

It really boils down to "Smalltalk DOESN'T do iteration, WE do."
It's an open system.  If there's a better way to iterate than
the usual collection methods and/or streams, let's find out what
it is and add it.