Maurice Rabb wrote:
<snip> For this to work would require that I add Object>>#value which I remember is a no-no, because it dilutes the BlockContext protocol as Object>>#do: diluted the Collection protocol. We replaced Object>>#do: with #in:, so with what do we replace Object>>#value? <snip>
Just out of curiousity and because it's late and I'm in a devil's advocate mood... What's wrong with diluting protocols? I have vaguely seen threads about this, but I've never really seen (or paid attention long enough), a good reason not to dilute protocols. It's just kind of one of those unexplained commandments (too me). I have personally thought many times that it would be cool to totally blur the lines between collections and single objects in Smalltalk for quite some time. Isn't that one of the things Lisp kind of does? Why does enumeration have to be bound to a storage strategy?
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