I agree with Martin. The default connotation of 'destruct' in English is to destroy. I would suggest either #destructuredDo: or #tuppleDo: to avoid confusion. Norm On 3/28/2020 8:13 AM, Martin McClure wrote:
Hi Christian and all,
#destructDo: is probably not the best name. "Destruct" can be interpreted as either short for "destructured" (which is what you want) or more like "destroy" as in "self-destruct." I initially took "destruct" in the "destroy" sense and guessed that #destructDo: might remove each element from the collection as it iterated. You could lengthen it to #destructured: or #destructuredDo:, but if there's a good short name that would be better.
#tupleDo: feels better.
But both #tupleDo: and #destructDo: contain "do" which implies iteration. Unless I'm missing something, your #destructDo: does not iterate. I'd really expect a #tupleDo: to iterate -- I'd expect with
#(1 2 3 4) tupleDo: [:a :b: | a + b]
that the block would be evaluated twice, once with 1 and 2 and once with 3 and 4. This would be a nice pattern; you could also have a tupleCollect: a tupleDetect: and so on.
#mapTo: is quite similar to #map: in PetitParser, except IIRC PetitParser's #map: expects an exact match in argument count. But maybe #map: is a good name for consistency.
Hope this helps.
Regards, -Martin
On 3/28/20 7:24 AM, Christian Haider wrote:
Yes, that would be nice. Unfortunately a bit more involved than this 1-liner…
*Von:*Esug-list <esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org> *Im Auftrag von *Christophe Dony *Gesendet:* Samstag, 28. März 2020 15:17 *An:* esug-list@lists.esug.org *Betreff:* Re: [Esug-list] destructDo:
Hi. I like tupleDo:
or matchDo:
and what about installing a full pattern matching, as in many languages e.g. Scheme : https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/match.html
#(1 #(2 3 6 7) 4) matchDo: [:a (:b :@c) :d] | …] here c would be #(3 6 7)
may be it already exist? if not, would really be a +
Christophe
Le 28/03/2020 à 14:15, Mark Plas a écrit :
Hello Christian,
"I don’t really like the name,"
Maybe you could call it #tupleDo:?
#(1 2 3) tupleDo: [:a :b :c | …]
Mark
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*From:*Esug-list <esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org> <mailto:esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org> *On Behalf Of *Christian Haider *Sent:* zaterdag 28 maart 2020 13:43 *To:* vwnc@cs.uiuc.edu <mailto:vwnc@cs.uiuc.edu>; esug-list@lists.esug.org <mailto:esug-list@lists.esug.org>; amber-lang@googlegroups.com <mailto:amber-lang@googlegroups.com> *Subject:* [Esug-list] destructDo:
Hi,
I am using a nice little method #destructDo: for a while now and it feels good.
In VisualWorks:
SequenceableCollection>>destructDo: aBlock
"Evaluate aBlock with the receiver's elements as parameters.
aBlock takes its arguments from the receiver.
'ok'
#(1 2 3) destructDo: [:a :b :c | a + b + c]
#(1 2 3) destructDo: [:a :b | a + b]
#(1 2 3) destructDo: [:a | a]
#(1 2 3) destructDo: [42]
'not ok'
#(1 2 3) destructDo: [:a :b :c :d | a + b + c + d]
"
^aBlock cullWithArguments: self asArray
In Amber:
SequenceableCollection>>destructDo: aBlock
^aBlock valueWithPossibleArguments: self
In Pharo and other dialects, I don’t know, but should be as easy.
For example you can do
(('2020-03-28' tokensBasedOn: $-) collect: #asNumber) destructDo: [:year :month :day |
Date newDay: day monthNumber: month year: year]
I like that the block is not the receiver (like with #valueWithArguments or #cullWithArguments), but the last argument.
Now the questions:
* I am sure that others came up with this. Anybody knows? * What are you using for this pattern? * I don’t really like the name, but haven’t found anything better yet. Maybe #destructedDo: or just #destructed: or: #withPartsDo:… maybe something shorter? Ideas? * What are you thinking about this?
Happy hacking,
Christian
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