On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:40:29 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:21:57 +0200, Keith Hodges wrote:
>> ...
>>> For example, using your logic, you would never come up with this idea.
>>>
>>> 1 to: 10 do: [:b ].
>>>
>>> I think your version might look like something from another thread on  
>>> squeak-dev at the moment. ACollection>>from:to:apply:
>>  And I thought that would slip through unnoticed ;-)
>>  The original suggestion was, aBlock>>apply: aCollection from: start  
>> to: stop.
>>  Since only collections can know how to do that, aBlock and aCollection  
>> had to be swapped. Of course your suggestion #from:to:apply: is also a  
>> good one.
>
>
> I was wondering why it is called "apply" anyway - the traditional term  
> would be "do". The only reason to call it "apply" is if it's a Block  
> method.

:)

> I'd suggest that the proper selector for that method would be
>
> 	from:to:do:

Done.

> which indeed exists already, and which would just get a speed  
> enhancement by the new primitive.

Oh no! that's too easy! Only the one-liner <primitive: ...> has to be  
added to an existing method. Will this count as an enhancement, a change,  
a VM extension, or what ;-)

Thank you Bert.

/Klaus

> - Bert -