mccMay 18, 2025

Me: It's confusing to talk about programming sometimes because that "type" is a vocabulary word with special meaning but it's also a general word in English. I know, if I ever need to express a general category of things, I'll use the unambiguous word "kind".

Haskell: *About to play a hilarious prank on me*

Show threadOliviaMay 18, 2025
@mcc sort? class? group? plenty of unambiguous choices!
Show threadmccMay 18, 2025
@chamlis @neia The only time I am ever glad that Smalltalk/Objective-C failed at market is when I need to use the word "collection" in a sentence
Show threadcassieMay 18, 2025
@mcc @chamlis @neia aren’t Java and C# just as excited to call things collections?
Show threadnexMay 18, 2025

@porglezomp @mcc @chamlis ‘Collection’ is a common generic term for pretty much all kinds of container types throughout programming/CS; I guess in Smalltalk/ObjC it's something more specific, or weird?

I tried googling it for a minute, but so far this looks pretty much like what I'd encounter in Python or Kotlin or whatever: https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/html_node/Collection.html#Collection

GNU Smalltalk Library Reference: Collection

GNU Smalltalk Library Reference: Collection

Show threadmcc
@nex @porglezomp @chamlis It's a specific class in the standard library inheritance tree.
May 18, 2025 at 9:21pmWeb