Re: [sc-dev] ListPatterns: a modest proposal

[James McCartney <asynth@xxxxxx>]

no. take it out.
isKindOf is bad style and restricts things to a certain implementation 
instead of to things that respond to a certain protocol.


On Jan 27, 2004, at 7:20 PM, James Harkins wrote:

> Tested and committed:
>
> ListPattern : Pattern {
> 	var <>list, <>repeats=1;
> 	
> 	*new { arg list, repeats=1;
> 		^super.new.list_(
> 			list.isKindOf(SequenceableCollection).if({ list }, { [list] })
> 		).repeats_(repeats)
> 	}
> 	.....
> }
>
> H. James
>
> On Monday, Jan 26, 2004, at 22:17 US/Eastern, James Harkins wrote:
>
> > x = Pseq(1, inf).asStream;
> > x.next
> >
> > Good way to hang sclang. The reason is that x.list.size is always 0, 
> > so the .embedInStream never gets called and the Pseq stream loops 
> > infinitely.
> >
> > Would there be any harm in checking, at instantiation, to make sure 
> > the list in a ListPattern is really a SequenceableCollection? sclang 
> > shouldn't be that easy to break.
> >
> > list.isKindOf(SequenceableCollection).not.if({ list = [list] });
> >
> > This "feature" has tripped me up more than once. It just cost me the 
> > better part of an hour. Grr.
> >
> > H. James
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