hi Uko,
For Roassal, we have a #sortedAs: defined on all collections
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SequenceableCollection>>sortedAs: aSortBlockOrSymbol
"Answer a SortedCollection whose elements are the elements of the
receiver. The sort order is defined by the argument, aSortBlock."
"Return a new collection. This method does not do a side effect"
| aSortedCollection aSortBlock |
aSortedCollection := SortedCollection new: self size.
aSortBlock :=
aSortBlockOrSymbol isSymbol
ifTrue: [ [:a :b | |t1 t2|
t1 := (a perform:
aSortBlockOrSymbol).
t2 := (b perform:
aSortBlockOrSymbol).
((t1 isKindOf: Boolean)
and: [t2 isKindOf: Boolean])
ifTrue: [ t1 ]
ifFalse: [ t1 <
t2 ] ] ]
ifFalse: [
(aSortBlockOrSymbol numArgs = 1)
ifTrue: [ [ :v1 :v2 |
(aSortBlockOrSymbol value: v1) < (aSortBlockOrSymbol value: v2) ] ]
ifFalse: [ aSortBlockOrSymbol ] ].
aSortedCollection sortBlock: aSortBlock.
aSortedCollection addAll: self.
^ aSortedCollection
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You can use it for example:
(1 to: 4) sortedAs: #odd
=> a SortedCollection(1 3 2 4)
Collection withAllSubclasses sortedAs: #numberOfMethods
=> a SortedCollection(HashBag IdentityHashBag …)
This is really handy. It should be part of Pharo I believe.
Cheers,
Alexandre
On Mar 11, 2014, at 5:19 AM, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> This is a thing that I encounter quite often.
>
> Eg I have a collection of projects and I want to sort them by creation date.
> It would be nice to be able to do something like:
>
> projects sortByProp: #creationDate
>
> or by birth date of the author
>
> projects sortByProp: [ :proj | proj author birthDate ]
>
> Maybe I’m wrong, but as I’ve told already I encounter it quite often and
> writing something like
>
> projects sortBy: [ :prev :next | prev creationDate <= next creationDate ]
>
> is boring for me.
>
> Cheers.
> Uko
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