[squeak-dev] The Inbox: Collections-topa.366.mcz

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 20:05:22 UTC 2011


I say accept.  Even if there may not be many applications today that
would use it, It seems to encourages a high-bandwidth interface
between humans and Squeak; which is something we've always been
interested in.

  - Chris


On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 2010-07-02 um 20:18 schrieb Chris Muller:
>
>> Sorry for the late reply, but an interesting aspect of this for me was
>> the idea of converting Smalltalk selectors or identifiers to and from
>> normal written words.
>>
>> I have had reason to convert the other way, presenting a Maui
>> user-interface that converts the selector name to words makes the UI's
>> look conventional without forcing the Maui designer to go in and
>> override every label.
>>
>
> Seaside provides this:  String>>asCapitalizedPhrase
>
>> But converting from words to a selector or identifier, I have not
>> needed yet.  But I can see a potential use:  for parsing human written
>> words to generate code selector names...
>
> Thats exactly my application :)
>
> So Long,
>        -Tobias
>
>



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