Re: [sc-users] detect / detectIndex

[James McCartney <asynth@xxxxxx>]

This has never been needed in Lisp or Smalltalk. I'd be against adding 
this unless some precedent can be found.
I'm curious what the situation is. How are you using the collection 
that you need to do this?

On May 3, 2004, at 12:49 AM, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:

> > Will there ever be a parallel to detect and detectIndex that will 
> > start at a user-supplied index? Any reason the current methods 
> > couldn't be modified to do this?
> >
> > It's a pain... if I want to start at the beginning of a collection, 
> > fine, but otherwise I have to write the while loop myself. Waste of 
> > effort.
> > hjh
>
>
> I'd also suggest to always hand in a starting index, like in 
> Order-detect
> but this cannot be implemented in Collection (as Collection is not 
> indexeable necessarily.) So SequenceableCollection-detect should 
> probably be: