Hi,

Thanks for the education.

You are correct and it didn't even occur to me to use the timesRepeat. 
If I am not using the index value then it seems there is no reason to 
use the to:do: over timesRepeat.

I guess that should be #to:do and #timesRepeat?

I'll learn.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Jimmie Houchin


Ian Piumarta wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> 
>>1 to: 10 do: [Transcript show: 'Hello World!'].
>>I get this error.
>>This block requires 0 arguments and is being evaluated with 1.
> 
> Most message names that end in 'do:' are enumerators and expect their
> block to take an argument to eat up each successive value in the
> enumeration.
> 
> `1 to: 10 do: [...]' is a shorthand way of enumerating over an (implicit)
> sequence of 10 integers.  The mere existence of redundancy (giving
> starting and ending values) should suggest that it's more than just
> iteration (in which only the number of iterations, and not the value at
> each iteration, is important).
> 
> The corresponding iterator is:
> 
>   10 timesRepeat: [Transcript cr; show: 'Had enough yet?'].
> 
> Ian