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select:

Learn select: in Smalltalk with a construct-specific explanation, a unique example, a practical boundary, and a mastery check.

10 min read • Intermediate

select: is an atomic Smalltalk topic inside Collections. The example below uses the actual construct named by the lesson rather than a generic placeholder.

Focus on what select: changes: the input, binding, control path, object state, collection, runtime effect, or language contract. Then alter one value and verify that the behavior changes for a reason specific to this feature.

Topic-specific example

smalltalk-04-06-select.st
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#(1 2 3 4) select: [ :n | n even ].
Edge case / engineering note

Check the input collection shape, whether the operation mutates or returns a new value, and what happens for an empty collection.

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