[squeak-dev] Collection's #fold: vs #reduce:

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 21:17:17 UTC 2010


.snip.
>
> fold: aBinaryBlock
>   "Evaluate the block with the first two elements of the receiver,
>    then with the result of the first evaluation and the next element,
>    and so on.  Answer the result of the final evaluation. If the receiver
>    is empty, raise an error. If the receiver has a single element, answer
>    that element."
>   "
>   #('if' 'it' 'is' 'to' 'be' 'it' 'is' 'up' 'to' 'me') fold: [:a :b | a, '
> ', b]

just a 0.5 penny..

wow.. you trying to get a fastest way to fold a string,
by using a concatenaiton.. i think its not most effective way, at
least for given example :)

I think that using streams, it will be much faster.

(String streamContents: [:s |
  (#('if' 'it' 'is' 'to' 'be' 'it' 'is' 'up' 'to' 'me') do: [:each | s
nextPutAll: each; nextPut: $  ]) allButLast



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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