I think that cull: is cross-dialect, maybe born in VW (Travis Griggs?)

Le lun. 20 mai 2019 à 17:38, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> a
écrit :

> Hi, there.
>
> I think that all (6) sends in Trunk to #valueWithPossibleArgument: can be
> replaced with #cull:, which is more flexible.
>
>
> Does anyone recall the story of #cull:? Maybe we should just implement #valueWithPossibleArgument:
> on MessageSend (and maybe Symbol) to make it more consistent?
>
> For context, here is how I stumbled on it:
> #(1 2 3) collect: #even. "Works."
> 1 ifNotNil: #even. "Works."
> #(1) ifNotEmpty: #first. "Does not work."
>
> Please note that this question is not about "#(1 2 3) collect: #even"
> versus "#(1 2 3) collect: [:ea | ea even]". ;-) This is more like a case of
> surprising inconsistency...
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
>
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