Because I grew tired of the isEmpty ifTrue: [ ] all over the place. And ifEmpty has the right semantics for my use cases (like assignment).
I do not really care about portability, I am doing Pharo only. Phil On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 5:30 PM, jtuc...@objektfabrik.de < jtuc...@objektfabrik.de> wrote: > Am 31.10.16 um 15:59 schrieb p...@highoctane.be: > > but you should use myCollection ifEmpty: [ ... ] > > > interesting. Why do you think so? what if you wanted your code to be > portable across Smalltalk dialects? > > > >> >> >> > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Objektfabrik Joachim Tuchel mailto:jtuc...@objektfabrik.de > <jtuc...@objektfabrik.de> > Fliederweg 1 http://www.objektfabrik.de > D-71640 Ludwigsburg http://joachimtuchel.wordpress.com > Telefon: +49 7141 56 10 86 0 Fax: +49 7141 56 10 86 1 > > >
