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From: abbott@aerospace.aero.org (Russell J. Abbott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: A smalltalk "list" operation
Message-ID: <57722@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 13 Sep 89 14:35:43 GMT
References: <57474@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <80500077@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: abbott@aero.UUCP (Russell J. Abbott)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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In article <80500077@p.cs.uiuc.edu> johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Russ Abott's list operation is very cute.  One potential problem is
>that "," is already defined in SequenciableCollection to concatenate
>two collections.  It is real handy with strings.

For just that reason I now use "/", e.g., Set / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 ...  .
The "/" message is defined at both the class and the instance levels.
Of course one can pick one's own operator symbol.
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-- Russ abbott@itro3.aero.org