> On 13 Mar 2015, at 21:44, stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Le 10/3/15 14:40, Joachim Tuchel a écrit :
>> Marcus
>>  
>> So sorry for this false accusation. It is proprietary in Squeak.
>> And even if it was Dan's idea to rename it, I'd like to learn more about the 
>> reasoning.
>> My understanding would be:
>>  
>> #do: iterates over a collection
>> #doWithIndex: iterates over a collection and also keeps track of the current 
>> index.
>>  
>> Sounds very consistent to me. the most important thing I want the machine to 
>> do is iterate over the collection, and the index thing is just a variant 
>> thereof.
>>  
>> #do: iterates over a collection
>> #withIndexDo: keeps track of the index while iterating over a collection
>>   
>> Sounds clumsy to me. Introduces incompatibilities for not much value. If 
>> people complained about #do: as not intentioon revealing and opted to rename 
>> it to something like #withEachDo: , then I c
> +1 
> 

I think the reason was that there are withIndexCollect: , reverseWithIndexDo:, 

And of course the real thing we learn: if you do something, do it for real and 
finish. 

Now we have the problem: which version do we pick? We should pick one, rename 
the callers
and deprecate the other. In Pharo5. (#gather: is already on my list for that, 
too).

        Marcus


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