[Newbies] Re: [Q] Best way of doing ...
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Wed May 6 16:49:50 UTC 2009
On Tue, 05 May 2009 15:29:30 +0200, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
> People:
> I need a way for two collections of different size could be tested for
> all elements in both.
A quick and dirty (a prototype) is, to put both into the same new
IdentitySet (or set, depends on your #=) and then just compare sizes.
Then you also don't need to sort, the set (of both) will free you from
sorting. And #copyWithoutAll: can then give you things in B which are not
in A, etc.
HTH.
> Example:
>
> A := #(a1 a2 a3).
> B := #(b1 b2 b3 b4 b5).
>
> Some similar to
>
> with: otherCollection do: twoArgBlock
> "Evaluate twoArgBlock with corresponding elements from this
> collection
> and otherCollection."
> otherCollection size = self size
>
> But for different size
>
> Very thanks
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