[Cuis-dev] The Cuis-Smalltalk Book Exercise 2.3: Count of methods

[Ezequiel Birman]

To answer myself, the fact that we can evaluate `'' raisedTo: n` without
error seems like an unforeseen consequence of `#adaptToCollection:andSend:`
relying on `#collect` and how the latter works with empty collections.

On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 at 21:56, Ezequiel Birman <ebirman77 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The exercise is:
>
>> How many methods are there in the arithmetic method category of the
>> String class?
>>
>
> There are no messages categorized as arithmetic in String but in
> CharacterSequence, which String subclassifies. Maybe it was different
> before; Squeak Strings implement arithmetic messages, exactly those
> mentioned in the solution to the exercise:
>
>> the count of methods in the last right panel is 6: *, +, -, /, // and \\.
>>
> But `String allMethodsInCategory: 'arithmetic'` in both Cuis and Squeak
> evaluates as:
>
>>  #(#* #+ #- #/ #// #\\ #raisedTo:)
>>
> Seven methods and yes! you can raise the empty string to the power of n
> for n ∈ Number. WAT! The result is another empty string :) Are we able to
> do this because of historical reasons? Strings in Squeak can be added E.g
> `'3' + '4'` is the string '7'.
>
> Btw, I'm sharing my annotations
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> via hypothes.is publicly but you'll need to install the Chrome plugin or
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