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Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Sep 26 21:02:09 UTC 2006


"J J" <azreal1977 at hotmail.com> writes:
> Duplicating what others have when you don't have it is important.  But
> if you can improve on it at no extra cost then why not?

You did not address the example I gave:

> >   $(1 2 3) join: ', '    "gives: 1, 2, 3"

For this kind of use case, it would be nice if the join called
asString on the elements of the receiver.

I expect that this kind of use case, where you are turning a
collection into a space- or comma-delimited string for output, is the
most common use case.


-Lex




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