Re: [Pharo-users] Why is split: implemented in the separator rather than the string?

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Andy Burnett < andy.burnett@knowinnovation.com> wrote:

I keep getting this wrong, which makes me wonder why we send split: to the separator rather than the thing to be split. Is there a benefit to doing

$- split: '1969-07-20'

Because you are telling the receiver that he should split the argument. "Hey dash, can you split this for me?"

rather than

'1969-07-20' split: $- (which somehow seems more natural to me).

Try instead '1969-07-20' splitOn: $- "Hey collection, can you split on this?" Peter