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The Inbox: Collections-topa.366.mcz

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A new version of Collections was added to project The Inbox:
http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Collections-topa.366.mcz

==================== Summary ====================

Name: Collections-topa.366
Author: topa
Time: 16 June 2010, 3:34:47.932 pm
UUID: 5491e7f9-bcc4-423a-a267-8853ca2eb9a3
Ancestors: Collections-ul.365

Provide #asCamelCase for Strings.
May be usefull for natural language conversation or the like.

=============== Diff against Collections-ul.365 ===============

Item was added:
+ ----- Method: String>>asCamelCase (in category 'converting') -----
+ asCamelCase
+ "Convert to CamelCase. Can be conveinient
+ in conjunction with #asLegalSelector
+ 'A man, a plan, a canal, panama' asCamelCase.
+ 'A man, a plan, a canal, panama' asCamelCase asLegalSelector.
+ 'Here 123should % be 6 the name6 of the method' asCamelCase.
+ 'Here 123should % be 6 the name6 of the method' asCamelCase asLegalSelector."
+
+ ^ self class streamContents: [:stream |
+ self substrings do: [:sub |
+ stream nextPutAll: sub capitalized]]!


Tobias Pape
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Tobias Pape
Hi,

this little method may save some time if you need to
generate readable method selectors frequently.
Any objections against trunk inclusion?

So Long,
        -Tobias
Am 2010-06-16 um 13:34 schrieb [hidden email]:

>
> ==================== Summary ====================
>
> Name: Collections-topa.366
> Author: topa
> Time: 16 June 2010, 3:34:47.932 pm
> UUID: 5491e7f9-bcc4-423a-a267-8853ca2eb9a3
> Ancestors: Collections-ul.365
>
> Provide #asCamelCase for Strings.
> May be usefull for natural language conversation or the like.
>


Tobias Pape
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Tobias Pape
Isn't anybody interested in this?
I thought, camel case would be required more
than occasionally ;)

So Long,
        -tobias

Am 2010-06-16 um 16:07 schrieb Tobias Pape:

> Hi,
>
> this little method may save some time if you need to
> generate readable method selectors frequently.
> Any objections against trunk inclusion?
>
> So Long,
> -Tobias
> Am 2010-06-16 um 13:34 schrieb [hidden email]:
>>
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>
>> Name: Collections-topa.366
>> Author: topa
>> Time: 16 June 2010, 3:34:47.932 pm
>> UUID: 5491e7f9-bcc4-423a-a267-8853ca2eb9a3
>> Ancestors: Collections-ul.365
>>
>> Provide #asCamelCase for Strings.
>> May be usefull for natural language conversation or the like.
>>
>


Bert Freudenberg
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Bert Freudenberg
Seems of limited usefulness to me.

The only time I remember needing something similar was when I had to convert under_score_selectors to camelCase, and in that case your method wouldn't even have helped.

- Bert -

On 24.06.2010, at 21:23, Tobias Pape wrote:

> Isn't anybody interested in this?
> I thought, camel case would be required more
> than occasionally ;)
>
> So Long,
> -tobias
>
> Am 2010-06-16 um 16:07 schrieb Tobias Pape:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this little method may save some time if you need to
>> generate readable method selectors frequently.
>> Any objections against trunk inclusion?
>>
>> So Long,
>> -Tobias
>> Am 2010-06-16 um 13:34 schrieb [hidden email]:
>>>
>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>
>>> Name: Collections-topa.366
>>> Author: topa
>>> Time: 16 June 2010, 3:34:47.932 pm
>>> UUID: 5491e7f9-bcc4-423a-a267-8853ca2eb9a3
>>> Ancestors: Collections-ul.365
>>>
>>> Provide #asCamelCase for Strings.
>>> May be usefull for natural language conversation or the like.



Tobias Pape
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Tobias Pape
Hi
Am 2010-06-24 um 21:50 schrieb Bert Freudenberg:

> Seems of limited usefulness to me.
>
> The only time I remember needing something similar was when I had to convert under_score_selectors to camelCase, and in that case your method wouldn't even have helped.

True.
My usecase was converting a Given String
to camelcase, as in:
"prepare food for the winning team" => prepareFoodForTheWinnigTeam


can be useful for DSLs

So Long,
        -Tobias
Casey Ransberger-2
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Casey Ransberger-2
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It would make a fine community supported package, though, I think.



On Jun 24, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Seems of limited usefulness to me.
>
> The only time I remember needing something similar was when I had to convert under_score_selectors to camelCase, and in that case your method wouldn't even have helped.
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 24.06.2010, at 21:23, Tobias Pape wrote:
>
>> Isn't anybody interested in this?
>> I thought, camel case would be required more
>> than occasionally ;)
>>
>> So Long,
>> -tobias
>>
>> Am 2010-06-16 um 16:07 schrieb Tobias Pape:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> this little method may save some time if you need to
>>> generate readable method selectors frequently.
>>> Any objections against trunk inclusion?
>>>
>>> So Long,
>>> -Tobias
>>> Am 2010-06-16 um 13:34 schrieb [hidden email]:
>>>>
>>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>>
>>>> Name: Collections-topa.366
>>>> Author: topa
>>>> Time: 16 June 2010, 3:34:47.932 pm
>>>> UUID: 5491e7f9-bcc4-423a-a267-8853ca2eb9a3
>>>> Ancestors: Collections-ul.365
>>>>
>>>> Provide #asCamelCase for Strings.
>>>> May be usefull for natural language conversation or the like.
>
>
>

Chris Muller-3
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Chris Muller-3
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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.

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...

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Tobias Pape <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi
> Am 2010-06-24 um 21:50 schrieb Bert Freudenberg:
>
>> Seems of limited usefulness to me.
>>
>> The only time I remember needing something similar was when I had to convert under_score_selectors to camelCase, and in that case your method wouldn't even have helped.
>
> True.
> My usecase was converting a Given String
> to camelcase, as in:
> "prepare food for the winning team" => prepareFoodForTheWinnigTeam
>
>
> can be useful for DSLs
>
> So Long,
>        -Tobias
>

Tobias Pape
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Tobias Pape
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

Hannes Hirzel
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Hannes Hirzel
Could we come to a conclusion on this, please?

Acceptance or rejection?

--Hannes

On 7/5/10, Tobias Pape <[hidden email]> 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
>
>

Chris Muller-3
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Chris Muller-3
In reply to this post by Tobias Pape
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 <[hidden email]> 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
>
>

glenpaling
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glenpaling
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I say include it. I use it to create dictionary keys from a head while importing delimited text files.

populateFrom: aReadStream delimitWith: delimiters labels: labelCollection

        | numberOfFields newEntry item |
       
        data := OrderedCollection new.
       
        labels := labelCollection collect: [ :each | each withBlanksTrimmed asCamelCase asSymbol ].
        numberOfFields := labels size.
        [aReadStream atEnd] whileFalse: [
                item := (aReadStream nextLine) subStrings: delimiters.
                newEntry := Dictionary new: numberOfFields.
                item size > numberOfFields
                        ifTrue: [ self error: ['Number of data elements exeeds expected from labels']].
                labels withIndexDo: [:label :index |
                        newEntry at: label put: (item at: index ifAbsent: [nil]). ].
                data add: newEntry.
                ].
       
Bert Freudenberg
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Bert Freudenberg
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Two years later and I revise my stance on usefulness ;)

Merged into trunk.

One issue down the road might be that Etoys has a method with the same selector, but it does not change the case of the first character. Also, it does not create a copy of the string if there is no space in it. And it only looks for spaces. I like the simplicity of Tobias' version though, which is why I committed that one.

- Bert -

On 24.06.2010, at 12:50, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Seems of limited usefulness to me.
>
> The only time I remember needing something similar was when I had to convert under_score_selectors to camelCase, and in that case your method wouldn't even have helped.
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 24.06.2010, at 21:23, Tobias Pape wrote:
>
>> Isn't anybody interested in this?
>> I thought, camel case would be required more
>> than occasionally ;)
>>
>> So Long,
>> -tobias
>>
>> Am 2010-06-16 um 16:07 schrieb Tobias Pape:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> this little method may save some time if you need to
>>> generate readable method selectors frequently.
>>> Any objections against trunk inclusion?
>>>
>>> So Long,
>>> -Tobias
>>> Am 2010-06-16 um 13:34 schrieb [hidden email]:
>>>>
>>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>>
>>>> Name: Collections-topa.366
>>>> Author: topa
>>>> Time: 16 June 2010, 3:34:47.932 pm
>>>> UUID: 5491e7f9-bcc4-423a-a267-8853ca2eb9a3
>>>> Ancestors: Collections-ul.365
>>>>
>>>> Provide #asCamelCase for Strings.
>>>> May be usefull for natural language conversation or the like.
>
>




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