join

Yanni Chiu yanni at rogers.com
Sat Sep 16 03:47:53 UTC 2006


Keith Hodges wrote:
> I think that join: should be more than a simple string generator. Using 
> the power of Smalltalk collections you will find all sorts of wierd and 
> wonderful operators that work on all manner of collections, and I think 
> that join: should demonstrate some of this power.

A potential problem is that *if* the results depend on particular
quirks of Squeak, then trying to do the equivalent in another
Smalltalk becomes difficult. Seaside runs in VW (and Dolphin) too,
so portability is important. We don't want to diverge in a way
that makes frameworks & components built for Seaside in one Smalltalk,
difficult to port to other Smalltalks.

Having said that, I'll be happy with whatever covers my use case,
and isn't so general or complicated that we can't agree on what
the correct result ought to be. Otherwise, I can always rename my
methods.




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