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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