[Newbies] Smalltalk is a Mystery to Me

[Todd Blanchard]

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 at 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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