join

Keith Hodges keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Sep 15 02:16:47 UTC 2006


Thanks Avi,

thats just the method that I was looking for! So please let's get it 
added to the base image ;-)

This request is somewhat academic since I am stuck in 3.8 for a while 
until Magma supports 3.9.

Keith
>>
>> - the most important one is, that nobody needs it (or else you would 
>> have found it). Imagine Pearl with the full Squeak Stream hierarchy, 
>> why use join?
>
> Sure we need it.  At Smallthought, we have a package of utility 
> methods that includes:
>
> SequencableCollection>>joinTokens: aString
>     ^ String streamContents:
>         [:s |
>         self do: [:ea | s nextPutAll: ea asString] separatedBy: [s 
> nextPutAll: aString]]
>
> Looking through my sends to it, the argument is always either ' ' or 
> ', ', so #joinedWithSpaces and #joinedWithCommas would probably be 
> sensible methods to have too.
>
> Avi
>
>


	
	
		
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