[Help-smalltalk] Re: #flatten for seq-collections, #join: for collection classes

[Paolo Bonzini]

Stephen Compall wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 07:03 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Very cool!  However, what about just calling #join also the 
> > instance-side #flatten, and omitting the instance-side #flatten: (which 
> > is simpler to do with a class-side #join:)?
>
> While coming up with a name for the instance-side (first #concatenate,
> then #join as it happens, then #flatten), I thought it sounded too
> general.  How about #joinAll?

It does sound general, but I don't see anything else it could mean...

Also, I was reading on monads recently and they call exactly this 
operation "join" (in that case, the contained items are supposed to be 
of the same kind of the cointainer -- but that's just a special case).

If you're not too negative, I'd rather keep the easy name.

Paolo