[squeak-dev] Re: #firstOrLess: and #lastOrLess: ?

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 15:07:16 UTC 2015



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> On Sep 3, 2015, at 7:40 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If you *DID* implement a new method, I'd call it, "upToFirst:".
> 
>  someObjects upToFirst: 5

I find this slightly ambiguous with upTo: and upThrough:.  Why not atMostFirst: and atMostLast:  ?

> 
> 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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