e.g. someObject mongoDo: [ ... ].
withIndexDo: obeys the principle of least astonishment to me.
Except the difference between this case and the other examples is that "withIndex + Do:" reverses the argument order (:e :i). But more importantly, GNU and other Smalltalks have #doWithIndex:. I donât think that the payoff here is enough to diverge from the rest of the world. Lastly, apparently e.g. Dolphin has removed it completely in favor of #keysAndValuesDo: in response to a change in the ANSI standard. From http://forum.world.st/doWithIndex-tp3374968p3374975.html :
#doWithIndex: was in an early ANSI draft, presumably proposed by one of IBM's representatives but I can't really remember, and we had it in the version of Dolphin current at the time. Later it was removed from the standard and replaced with #keysAndValuesDo:, which makes sense since a sequenced collection can legimitately represent a "keyed collection" with integer keys. Therefore there is no need for a second enumerator that does the same thing but with key and value reversed.
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