On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:17:29 -0800 Bill Spight <bspight at pacbell.net> wrote:
>Consider the fact that SortedCollection>>collect: yields an
>OrderedCollection. That makes sense, because it is an extra burden on
>collect: to sort the new collection. *And you can always sort the new
>collection if you want to.*

Efficiency is not the only consideration. Having SortedCollection>>collect: return a SortedCollection might fail if the collected elements were not sortable, especially if using the sortBlock of the receiver. Returning an OrderedCollection prevents this sort of failure.

Cheers,
Bob