Well the problem he is having is that the symbol work is taking up a lot of time, so he wants to avoid it.
As I understand it, the capitalization code is in Symbol and string just uses it, yes? Then can't you just switch it? Have String be the class to have the actual capitalization logic and Symbol just calls it and turns the string into a Symbol?
From: "Bill Schwab" BSchwab@anest.ufl.edu Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers listsqueak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Symbol>>capitalized? Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:53:02 -0500
I would probably just send #asString to the symbols vs. adding the new method. I agree that returning an instance of the same class is the correct behavior.
Bill
Terry Raymond: RE: Symbol>>capitalized?
I would not recommend this. Normally, one would expect that a transformation like #capitalized would return an object of the same class. It would make more sense to define #asCapitalizedString and change the code to use it.
Terry
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