pipe

Winfried Jacobs w.jacobs at gmx.de
Sat Sep 1 19:12:33 UTC 2007


Jason Johnson schrieb:
>
> And also, instead of calling it the very confusing "pipes" I think we
> should call it then "then" operator. That is, it clearly says "do
> this to completion, *then* do this".

I agree.  I would expect a "pipe" to work like a FIFO queue, like
Unix-pipes do.

But    aCollection select: [...] ;;  collect: [...]    
 or     ( aCollection select: [...] ) collect: [...]   
is not a queue; so  "then"-Operator might be a better name .

- Winfried





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