And I'd guess you just totally blew the newbies input buffer with conceptual overload when he was just trying to get one thing working.
On Aug 22, 2008, at 10:10 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Todd" == Todd Blanchard tblanchard@mac.com writes:
Todd> north := OrderedCollection new. Todd> south := OrderedCollection new. Todd> east := OrderedCollection new. Todd> west := OrderedCollection new. Todd> trick := OrderedCollection new.
It's been my observation that similarly named variables that are acted upon in similar ways really ought to be part of a common data structure rather than unrelated variables.
hands := IdentityDictionary newFrom: (#(north east south west trick) collect: [:each | each -> Set new]).
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