[squeak-dev] IdentitySet>>collect:

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Nov 26 23:11:17 UTC 2014


On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:52:43PM +0100, Frank Lesser wrote:
> Hi Eliiot.
> 
> I am not a native English - but collect: means collect IMO.
> 
> so for every element deliver the result of evaluating the block. DOT
> 
> interesting issue.
> 
> Frank

I am a native American speaker, so your English is probably better than mine ;-)

I also was surprised by the result. But IdentitySet>>collect: is doing
the right thing in iterating over all the elements of the identity set:

  | r |
  r := Random new.
  ((IdentitySet withAll: #(1 2 3 1.0 2.0 3.0))
      collect: [:e | r next]) size ==> 6


The confusing behavior is the result of answering a Set rather than IdentitySet.

Eliot argues for answering an IdentitySet, Levente explains why this may
not be a good idea, and Eliot agrees that Levente's suggestion of using
the explicit #collect:as: is a satisfactory solution.

Dave



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