If you’re looking for a short selector that doesn’t reveal meaning by using more words, I would borrow a term that is used elsewhere, like your “destructure”. Various programming language communities have terms like “expand”, “unpack”, “spread”, or “splat” for using a sequence as separate arguments. Maybe “spread” would work? - Bert - On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 16:58 Christian Haider < christian.haider@smalltalked-visuals.com> wrote:
Not bad! Captures the semantics nicely.
Just a bit long
*Von:* Esug-list <esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org> *Im Auftrag von *Bert Freudenberg *Gesendet:* Sonntag, 29. März 2020 00:12 *An:* esug-list@lists.esug.org *Betreff:* Re: [Esug-list] destructDo:
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 11:27 AM Pape, Tobias <Tobias.Pape@hpi.de> wrote:
What about
^stringsOfLine asComponentsIn: [:ignore :string2 :string3 :string4 | self produktbereich: string2 profitcenter: string3 bezeichnung: string4]
?
Best regards -Tobias
Agreed, "...In:" is better than "...Do" because the latter implies iteration in Smalltalk. (never mind ifNotNilDo: which broke the convention)
And since block arguments are called "arguments" how about
aCollection asArgumentsIn: [:arg1 :arg2 :arg3 | ... ]
- Bert -
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