>  <snip>
>At 10:28 AM 8/31/98, Patrick Logan wrote:
>>    The problem with the new versions is that we are forgeting special
>>    the SortCollection protocol.
>>
>>    #addLast:       adds an element without resorting (sneaky)
>>
>>Why is #addLast allowed to be sneaky but #at:put: is disallowed
>>altogether?
>>
>
>SortedCollections are never guaranteed to have any element at a particular
>location, just in order.  If you insert an element at a location, the ideal
>SortCollection will immediately resort itself to stay correct.  The element
>will more than likely not still be at the location you put it in, making
>#at:put: meaningless.  By this reasoning _all_ the inherited adding methods
>are also meaningless except #add:.  To this end I have added:
>
>SortCollection>>#addWithoutSorting: anObject
>        ^super add: anObject
>
>and changed #copyFrom:to: to use #addWithoutSorting: instead of
>inappropriately using #addLast:.
>
>--Maurice
>
 
I am dazed and confused! Why would you want to add to a sorted collection
without sorting? It seems to me to be a canidate for the more general
collection class. So again why have an addLast: method in the 
SortCollection
class??

Jon

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