> On 13 Mar 2015, at 21:44, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Le 10/3/15 14:40, Joachim Tuchel a écrit :
>> Marcus
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>> So sorry for this false accusation. It is proprietary in Squeak.
>> And even if it was Dan's idea to rename it, I'd like to learn more about the
>> reasoning.
>> My understanding would be:
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>> #do: iterates over a collection
>> #doWithIndex: iterates over a collection and also keeps track of the current
>> index.
>>
>> Sounds very consistent to me. the most important thing I want the machine to
>> do is iterate over the collection, and the index thing is just a variant
>> thereof.
>>
>> #do: iterates over a collection
>> #withIndexDo: keeps track of the index while iterating over a collection
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>> Sounds clumsy to me. Introduces incompatibilities for not much value. If
>> people complained about #do: as not intentioon revealing and opted to rename
>> it to something like #withEachDo: , then I c
> +1
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I think the reason was that there are withIndexCollect: , reverseWithIndexDo:,
And of course the real thing we learn: if you do something, do it for real and
finish.
Now we have the problem: which version do we pick? We should pick one, rename
the callers
and deprecate the other. In Pharo5. (#gather: is already on my list for that,
too).
Marcus
