On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:44 PM, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:

Hi

I have a file

/Users/ducasse/PharoMooc/Subtitles/W1/C019SD-W1-sous-titres-EN/EN_C019SD-W1-S1.srt

and I would like to generate a new one with a different extension

/Users/ducasse/PharoMooc/Subtitles/W1/C019SD-W1-sous-titres-EN/EN_C019SD-W1-S1.vtt

Why not just myFile withExtension: 'vtt'

e.g.

f := '/tmp/file.txt' asFileReference.

"File @ /tmp/file.txt"

f withExtension: 'log'

"File @ /tmp/file.log"

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Now I'm browsing FileReference and I do not find an easy way to do it.

It's an AbstractFileReference method.

/Users/ducasse/PharoMooc/Subtitles/W1/C019SD-W1-sous-titres-EN/

Why not just #parent? Some languages also use #dirname.

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/Users/ducasse/PharoMooc/Subtitles/W1/C019SD-W1-sous-titres-EN/EN_C019SD-W1-S1

This one is the one hard to get�� but how often do you need it? Is it worth the extra method in the API?

If just for changing the extension, then there's #withExtension:

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Proposal one:

�� We could add withoutExtension

�� withoutExtension

�� ^�� (self parent / self basenameWithoutExtension)

What is the use case for this?

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Proposal two:

�� We could add withoutBasename

�� withoutBasename

�� ^ self parent

I don't see a point of this method, why not just use #parent?

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Proposal three:

Not sure that it is worth

(note that this is not a rename)

�� withNewExtension: anExtension
�� ^ self parent / self basenameWithoutExtension withExtension: anExtension

Is this somehow different than using #withExtension: directly?

Peter