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From: Stephen Compall <[hidden email]>
To: Paolo Bonzini <[hidden email]>
Cc: GNU Smalltalk <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Help-smalltalk] [PATCH] Handful of new methods
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Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:01:16 -0600
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Paolo Bonzini <[hidden email]> writes:
> I implemented the equivalent of Python's zip and izip

I have only ever found zip useful in contexts with an arbitrary number
of arrays to zip.  That, and even though my naming skills haven't
improved, maybe #zip:zip:... would be a better naming convention to
describe this operation?

> Would you like them in 3.0.x too?

I would like the Number methods in the stable series.

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> I have only ever found zip useful in contexts with an arbitrary number
> of arrays to zip.

I see.  That would be a kind of transpose operation.

> That, and even though my naming skills haven't
> improved, maybe #zip:zip:... would be a better naming convention to
> describe this operation?

The #with: naming derives from SequenceableCollection>>#with:do:.

'123' with: '456' do: [ :a :b | (a, b) printNl ].
('123' with: '456') do: [ :ab | ab join printNl ].

> I would like the Number methods in the stable series.

Thanks for the feedback.

Paolo


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