Well, of course you're not *supposed* to be doing this. But
you could,
and it would only be half-evil ;)
It wouldn't be evil at all. This is Smalltalk, not Ada!!
But seriously, it seems a major oversight that such a basic task isn't in the standard protocol. The language has been around a while, someone else must have wanted to empty a collection.
-- Jeffrey Straszheim http://straszheim.50megs.com
It not being standardized just means there's no consensus to the *right* way to do it. I'd bet many of us have our own versions of #removeAll in our images, I know I do.
Ramon Leon http://onsmalltalk.com