[Newbies] Re: Re: How to empty a collection?
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:21:57 +0100, Klaus D. Witzel wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:56:48 +0100, cdrick wrote: Or maybe, if aCollection == self, a warning could be raised ? What do you think ? Thumbs down, I do not want anybody copy a collection behind my back (however small or large it is) just because remove* has nothing to do with copy. Ok, I can understand. What about the error ? This is a bug, Smalltalk cannot compromise its fundamental structures (#removeAll is ANSI). Enter the report if not already on mantis attach your fix. Sorry, s/#removeAll /#removeAll: / /Klaus ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
[Newbies] Re: Re: How to empty a collection?
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:56:48 +0100, cdrick wrote: Or maybe, if aCollection == self, a warning could be raised ? What do you think ? Thumbs down, I do not want anybody copy a collection behind my back (however small or large it is) just because remove* has nothing to do with copy. Ok, I can understand. What about the error ? This is a bug, Smalltalk cannot compromise its fundamental structures (#removeAll is ANSI). Enter the report if not already on mantis attach your fix. /Klaus ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
Re: [Newbies] Re: Re: How to empty a collection?
Or maybe, if aCollection == self, a warning could be raised ? What do you think ? Thumbs down, I do not want anybody copy a collection behind my back (however small or large it is) just because remove* has nothing to do with copy. Ok, I can understand. What about the error ? This is a bug, Smalltalk cannot compromise its fundamental structures (#removeAll is ANSI). Enter the report if not already on mantis attach your fix. I actually didn't meant it was a bug :) I need to be sharper with my english... I meant raising an error message if self == aCollection ... Could it be a fix ? Because in a way, the behavior is not really an error, it's more a bad use because we know it's iterative and then, self and aCollection change in the same time... I hope you don't take my remarks, as I want to change smalltalk... I just want to understand it better ;) Cheers Cédrick ps: by the way, I'll open a bug report, as finally I think it's an error (arf) because I shouldn't be aware removeAll is iterativeetc... so here is the bug report (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6937). ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
