[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Collections-eem.756.mcz
Francisco Garau
francisco.garau at gmail.com
Fri Jun 16 08:50:12 UTC 2017
How about #addWhenAbsent: ?
- Francisco
On 15 Jun 2017, at 23:58, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And, I didn't go with #ifMissingAdd: because it confuses the return value with the linguistic semantics -- e.g., if it returns true, does that mean it was "absent" or that it was added? forcing me to look at the method implementation again anyway.
>
> I think I confused this with a different one. ifMissingAdd:
> actually seems fine in terms of the return value semantics.. "true"
> would mean, "yes", it was missing and added.
>
> From there, saying we want to stay with the "Absent" terminology in the
> API seems reasonable.
>
> +1 for ifAbsentAdd:.
>
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