27 Sep
2006
27 Sep
'06
9:45 a.m.
By the way, I still find "join" to be a funny name here, but everyone in the thread insists it is common....
-Lex
Really? Seems to make sense to me, telling a collection to join all of it's elements together with a string. Here's a list of words, join them all with ', '. Here's a list of conditions, join them all with ' and ', or ' or '. It's used so much, I can't think of a shorter more precise name. It's certainly a common name in many other languages, maybe we're all just acclimated to that name.
Of course, I thought #ifTrue:ifFalse: looked pretty funny at first as well, even stubbed out #if:else: just to see if I could make it look more normal, but only at first. ;)
Ramon Leon http://onsmalltalk.com