[comp.lang.smalltalk] favorite class hierarchies

budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd) (09/02/88)

One thing I've done in the (as yet unreleased) next version of Little 
Smalltalk is to put the collection hierarchy as a subclass of Magnitude.
Set relations become subsets 
		Set(a b) < Set (a b c) < Set (a b c d)
Arrays (and hence strings) have lexical orderings  
		'abc' between: 'ab' and: 'abcd'  yields true
and other nice things come for free with this change.
--tim budd    budd@cs.orst.edu