On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> 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

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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