On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 05:20:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
If we want to be consistent with the likes of splitter, then
they should be something more like lowerCaser and upperCaser
(though caser isn't really word, and AFAIK, there is no noun
for something which changes the case of a letter). When adding
lazy versions in the past, for better or worse, we've generally
gone for using nouns, whereas you're suggesting adjectives
based coming from the past tense of a verb (though the verb "to
case" has nothing with the case of letters).
I think splitter and joiner are the exception rather than the
rule, actually:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Naming_conventions
Most of the hypothetical names in that column (verb-noun) are
pretty ugly. I don't think this is a convention we should adopt.
The problem with toXCase is that there is neither a noun for an
upper-case transform, nor a verb for such an operation, such as
e.g. "capitalization" and "capitalize", so I think we should look
at it separately.
I think someone suggested lowerCased and upperCased somewhere, I
think there are fine too. There is some precedent (transposed and
indexed).
