Because we were analysing the string API and trying to clean it.
Now this analysis is publicly available on
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-workingRoadmaps/blob/master/StringCleaning.md
Now I'm quite sure that I do not want to get such behavior into string:
why string is responsible to convert junk
into a "selector" which cannot even accept the fact that it could need a :
This code is bogus and shitty.
Stef
asLegalSelector
"'234znak 43 ) 2' asLegalSelector2"
| toUse |
toUse := self select: [:char | char isAlphaNumeric].
(toUse size = 0 or: [ toUse first isLetter not ])
ifTrue: [ toUse := 'v', toUse ].
^ toUse withFirstCharacterDownshifted
As mentioned in Stephan's recent comment in
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?13754 , some of us were using it. What
was the rationale? Maybe removing methods warrants a discussion on the list?
How about deprecations?
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