An 3.9 image for developers

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Sat Sep 16 19:55:16 UTC 2006


Hi Ramon,

on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:26:07 +0200, you wrote:
> Klaus wrote:
>> OrderedCollection for example, has indices for first and last element,  
>> so  why copy an OrderedCollection in #removeAll and waste memory and  
>> time?
>
> OrderedCollection has no #removeAll, if a more efficient one can be  
> implemented in it via it's indices, it could simply override the default  
> implementation.  This doesn't seem a reason for a superclass not to  
> provide a default implementation, if it can.

Right you are, always do it the object oriented way. Thank you for the  
reminder :)

/Klaus




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