Sorry for the late reply, but an interesting aspect of this for me was the idea of converting Smalltalk selectors or identifiers to and from normal written words.
I have had reason to convert the other way, presenting a Maui user-interface that converts the selector name to words makes the UI's look conventional without forcing the Maui designer to go in and override every label.
But converting from words to a selector or identifier, I have not needed yet. But I can see a potential use: for parsing human written words to generate code selector names...
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de wrote:
Hi Am 2010-06-24 um 21:50 schrieb Bert Freudenberg:
Seems of limited usefulness to me.
The only time I remember needing something similar was when I had to convert under_score_selectors to camelCase, and in that case your method wouldn't even have helped.
True. My usecase was converting a Given String to camelcase, as in: "prepare food for the winning team" => prepareFoodForTheWinnigTeam
can be useful for DSLs
So Long, -Tobias