On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, csra...@bol.com.br wrote: > Em 06/01/2010 17:30, Levente Uzonyi < le...@elte.hu > escreveu: > >> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, csra...@bol.com.br wrote: > [snipped] >>> As everybody else knows :-P the string concatenation operator is >>> '+', right!? So #, needs to be explained anyway. . . >> You're wrong, it's '.'. :) > > You know this polyglot approach to programming ends up with some > confusion :-) > > [snipped] > >>> This may lead to the same problem we already have with #, namely >>> it is slow and not recommended for repeated operations. >>> >> No, it's fast, because it doesn't create copies. Of course to know >> that you also have to know that List is an alias for >> OrderedCollection... It's just a C++ism that makes your code >> slower. :) >> > Levente, > > In a ordinary (sort of, it's a dev image, Pharo 1.0 #10503, there is > no List class, and: > > Collection>>, aCollection > ^self copy addAll: aCollection; yourself > > Which creates copies for each #, method send, right? Or do I miss > something here?
Yes you do, List is one of Adrian's ideas to Huffman code smalltalk. Details here http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~akuhn/blog/2009/one-letter-method-names/ Levente > > -- > Cesar Rabak > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
