On 2014-05-26, at 18:40, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 May 2014, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
> 
>> Should this work?
>> 
>> OrderedCollection streamContents: [:result |
>> 	result nextPutAll: #(a b c) asOrderedCollection].
>> 
>> Well, this works:
>> 
>> OrderedCollection streamContents: [:result |
>> 	result nextPutAll: #(a b c)].
>> 
>> And this works, too:
>> 
>> OrderedCollection streamContents: [:result |
>> 	result nextPut: #foo; nextPutAll: #(a b c) asOrderedCollection].
> 
> Even if it would work, it's a bad pattern, don't use it. OrderedCollection implements its own streaming API (#add:, #addAll:), which is a lot more efficient. I would use the same API as in streams in my own Smalltalk, but that's another story.
> 
> Also, converting Arrays to OrderedCollections just to throw them away in the next step is just as bad as creating a stream over an OrderedCollection. Don't do it.
> 
> 
> Levente

Still, it should work, don't you think?

- Bert -


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