Yes but I mean, in a clean core image, on first method save it asks for the initials, this is stored on the initials inst var of the singleton Author.
But on the World Menu, the set author name, it stores (in a firstname.lastname format) the value entered in the name inst var
So, setting one, doesn't set the other. Also, the messages are different for each one (rightly, because are different things) but I want to know what is the inteded behavior from now on to trying to do the changes.
Yes this is the mess. Can you propose a nice solution?
Is the user only asked for name (forcing a format like firstname.lastname) and the initials are calculated accordingly?
would be good but some people on ss have funky initials because theirs were taken. This is why initials does not scale.
Are the initials doomed to disappear, and the only interface will be the name (and possibly the email and other fields mentioned) to identify a person? This means to modify all the senders to initial methods and point them to name methods. With the time, the initials inst var will be droped from the Author class.
I think so.