Really?  Its not a binary search?  Seems like it should be. 

-Todd Blanchard

On Tuesday, October 03, 2006, at 10:54AM, J J <azreal1977 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hello all,
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>I was going through the collections today and I noticed something I was 
>currious about.
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>1.  Why doesn't sorted collection over-ride any of the search messages (e.g. 
>occuranceOf:)?  Since the data is sorted, I would think it would have a 
>chance for a more efficient search.
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>2.  Is there a better way then making a message "select:upTo:"?  In an 
>application I am writting, I provide an interface to a collection (of dates) 
>and one of the things you can do is ask for "nextDates: aNumber".  The most 
>efficient way to impliment this, since my collection is ordered, would be if 
>I could go:
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>MyClass>>nextDates: aNumber
>  ^ dates select: [ "some test" ] upTo: aNumber
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>Before I impliment this myself: is there some way that people do this 
>normally, and that's why no one has implimented this yet?
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