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David Hopwood david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Apr 14 19:54:16 PDT 2005


Brian Rice wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Brian Rice wrote:
> 
>> Sequence methods: concatenateAll:, concatenateAll:separatedBy: to join 
>> sequences together, or with a separator sequence. chainPairsDo: is 
>> like pairsDo: but the block is applied to each element twice, once as 
>> next argument, then as the first (except for the first and last 
>> elements, of course).
> 
> On further thought, concatenateAll: and such probably deserve a more 
> succinct selector. The equivalent of this is "join" in 
> perl/python(/ruby? I forget), although Common Lisp / Dylan just call it 
> "concatenate". [...] Ideas?

Haskell calls it "concat". I don't see the motivation for ";*".

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David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>




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