[Newbies] method naming advice

[Mark Volkmann]

On Sep 26, 2008, at 2:42 PM, John McKeon wrote:

> One newbie to another - YES LOL  Just kidding
>
> If it were me.....I would look for something already in Squeak -  
> like XMLElement  in the XML-Parser category - and either use it  
> straight out of the box or subclass it. (Notice it already has  
> attributeAt: attributeName put: attributeValue)

The reason I don't want to do that is that I'm porting a library I  
wrote to Smalltalk. I've already implemented it in Java and Ruby.  
Other people are working on Perl, C# and JavaScript implementations.  
If you're interested, you can read about it at http://www.ociweb.com/ 
wax.

I'm not necessarily expecting that the Smalltalk world will gravitate  
toward using my library. For now I'm doing it mainly for the learning  
experience.

> Just my two cents.
>
> Mark Volkmann wrote:
>> I hope I'm not exceeding the limit for questions in one day.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
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>> Mark Volkmann
>>
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