If you *DID* implement a new method, I'd call it, "upToFirst:".

  someObjects upToFirst: 5

However, I don't think its worth expanding the API; I would just do

   someObject first: (5 min: someObject size)

It's not that hard to read.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 9:32 AM, marcel.taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> It's no "collect" but a "first: n", which returns the first n elements from a
> collection. So #nextAvailable: reads nice but this is stream semantics.
> There is no #next for collections.
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