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Question by Alan
Submitted on 5/29/2004
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Suggest a way of assigning the following to one variable 'lineTotal'.

| total |
total :=  0.
aLine do: [ :each |
each isVowel
ifTrue: [total :=  total + 1] ].
^total

(Where total is counting the number of vowels in aLine)


Answer by Debbie
Submitted on 6/1/2004
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Put it all in a block. This again is very similar to a OU TMA question. So I would be reluctant to give further information.

 

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