[Newbies] method naming advice

[Mark Volkmann]

On Sep 26, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> 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?


The method writes the part of the XML corresponding to the attribute  
to a stream. For example,

wax attrName: 'foo' value: 'bar'

would write ' foo="bar"' to the stream and

was attrPrefix: 'p' name: 'foo' value: 'bar'

would write ' p:foo="bar"' to the stream.

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Mark Volkmann