[squeak-dev] #collect: on strings

John Thornborrow john at pinesoft.co.uk
Wed Jun 25 10:01:43 UTC 2008


It would be more natural to use #select: for this behaviour, as 
#collect: is for the purpose of something like:

'a string' collect: [:each | each asUppercase]

Regards,
John

Damien Cassou wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:39 AM, cdrick <cdrick65 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (Array withAll: 'something') collect: [ :letter | letter isVowel ].
>> #(false true false true false false true false false)
> 
> I did that
> 
> 'something' asArray collect: [ :letter | letter isVowel ].
> 
> do get the desired behavior. However, it is not intuitive to me.
> 

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John Thornborrow
http://www.pinesoft.co.uk


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