J J wrote:
> Well the problem he is having is that the symbol work is taking up a lot 
> of time, so he wants to avoid it.

I don't think so. The obvious solution for this problem is to use "#foo 
asString capitalized" which is both more explicit and avoiding the 
symbol conversion.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> 
> As I understand it, the capitalization code is in Symbol and string just 
> uses it, yes?  Then can't you just switch it?  Have String be the class 
> to have the actual capitalization logic and Symbol just calls it and 
> turns the string into a Symbol?
> 
> 
>> From: "Bill Schwab" <BSchwab at anest.ufl.edu>
>> Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>> list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Subject: Symbol>>capitalized?
>> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:53:02 -0500
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
>> University of Florida
>> Department of Anesthesiology
>> PO Box 100254
>> Gainesville, FL 32610-0254
>>
>> Email: bills at anest4.anest.ufl.edu
>> Tel: (352) 846-1285
>> FAX: (352) 392-7029
>>
>>
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