[Newbies] method naming advice

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 26.09.2008 um 12:24 schrieb Mark Volkmann:

> I hope I'm not exceeding the limit for questions in one day.

Not yet ;)

> I'm porting some Java code that deals with XML to Smalltalk. A Java  
> class has these methods.
>
>    public StartTagWAX attr(String name, Object value) ...
>    public StartTagWAX attr(String prefix, String name, Object  
> value) ...
>
> What would be good Smalltalk names for these methods?
> Here's my first guess.
>
> attrName:value:
> attrPrefix:name:value:


The way to test this is to check how it looks in a method using this.  
Looks okay except that a Smalltalker probably would prefer "attribute"  
to "attr".

> Note that I don't really have a new to create Attr objects. I just  
> need data describing an attribute so I can output it.

I'm not sure I understand ... do these methods return an new Attribute  
object? Or is the method writing the arguments directly?

- Bert -