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Correction: This would add #>>> to Object, not MessageSend.<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 12.06.2019 15:31:12 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel@hpi.de>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div id="__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000">Hi, there.<div class="mb_sig"></div><div><br></div><div>One of our students was curious about whether the following expression could be somehow improved:</div><div><br></div><div><b>someObjects collect: [:each | self convert: each].</b></div><div><br></div><div>I suppose that the main goal was to remove the brackets. Similar to the existing symbol shortcut:</div><div><br></div><div><b>someObjects collect: #message.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Looking at all implementors of #value:, #cull: and alike, I suppose that a more convenient creation of a MessageSend could tackle this case directly:</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>someObjects collect: self >>> #convert:.</b></div><div><br></div><div>This feels strange. :-) Very strange. But maybe it's just me. I don't see the traditional [:each | ...] version as neither difficult to read nor write.</div><div><br></div><div>What do you think about adding the #>>> message to MessageSend for more compact instantiation? Do you see other scenarios of interest? Would it be just superfluous? Producing less readable code?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div><br></div><div>P.S.: #>>> would be close to #>>, which is implemented on Behavior to access method objects.</div></div></div></blockquote>
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