On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization > > to "capitalize" is writing a word with its first letter as a capital > letter (upper-case letter) > AND THE REMAINING LETTERS IN LOWER CASE writing systems. > > So > > 'SOMETHING' capitalized > > currently returns "SOMETHING" in Pharo but should return "Something" > according to the definition to end up with lowercase. > I think it would be reasonable to expect... self assert: 'something' capitalized equals: 'SOMETHING' capitalized In ignorance of history, I'd call this a bug. Maybe not for "frozen" Pharo 6, but not needing a deprecation, just a fix. cheers -ben > If we fix this I guess we would also align Pharo with other languages, > like C# for example [1]. > > Could be easily changed by replacing "copy" with "asLowercase" in > #capitalized: > > capitalized > "Return a copy with the first letter capitalized" > | cap | > self isEmpty ifTrue: [ ^self copy ]. > cap := self asLowercase. > cap at: 1 put: (cap at: 1) asUppercase. > ^ cap > > Should we fix this? Do not know about any side effects... > > > Note: a) Squeak has the same issue > b) it fits for #uncapitalized, see [2] > c) Dont know about ANSI standard or any other ST dialect > > Thx > T. > > > [1] https://github.com/srkirkland/Inflector/blob/master/Inflector.Tests/ > CapitalizeTests.cs > [2] https://github.com/srkirkland/Inflector/blob/master/Inflector.Tests/ > UncapitalizeTests.cs > >
