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ST 4U 286: Interesting Collection Methods

September 21, 2012 10:20:01.137

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at some of the more interesting methods in the collection hierarchy. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

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Today we'll look at some of the more useful methods in the Collection class hierarchy, and use some examples to illustrate. We're using VA Smalltal, so fire that up and look at class collection:

Collection

Select the ANSI-API category, and have a look at the methods - you can count on the ones here being implemented (and implemented this way) across all the major Smalltalks. Some of the methods here are "new" - in the sense that the various vendors have only added them to their distributions in the last few years. Today we'll take a look at some of these methods:


coll1 := #(1 2 3 4 5).
coll2 := #(4 5 6 7 8).
coll3 := #(1 1 2 3 3 4 4 5).

coll1 anySatisfy: [:each | each < 10]. true
coll1 allSatisfy: [:each | each < 3]. false
coll1 noneSatisfy: [:each | each > 10]. true

coll1 intersection: coll2. Set(4 5 )

coll2 occurrencesOf: 2 0 

coll3 sorted: [:a : b | b <= a] (5 4 4 3 3 2 1 1)

The results of executing each line of code is after each line (using Display from the workspace menu). If you don't follow why, go ahead and experiment with the examples, and debug through them.

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