Bahman, Am 13.11.13 08:43, schrieb Bahman Movaqar:
Let's say I have a method with signature in a language like Java as below: gregorianDayToJulianDay(year, month, day)
What could be a proper naming for this method in Smalltalk? I'm a bit confused as I'm so used to the concept of methods being "verbs" which accept some arguments.
I'd appreciate any help/idea.
Thats always hard ;-) I suggest a method name starting with 'convert' or 'as'. If you implement the method on a specialized GregorianDate class, you can sure omit the part for what you convert from, in a helper class you need to keep it. So let's assume you implement the method on a helper class. Then I'd suggest #convertGregorianToJulianYear:month:day: If you can change the order of parameters, it is even better (IMO) to make the thing more like Date's newDay:month:year: (or newDay:monthIndex:year). So we end up with: #convertGregorainToJulianDay:month:year: In case you have a specialized GregorianDate class: GregorianDate>>#asJulianDay:month:year: This is of course from a smalltalk perspective. If your goal is to keep it recognizable for Java developers, keep the year:month:date ordering and implement additional methods for the Smalltalk-minded that delegate to the "originals" (or the other way round, that doesn't really matter). So this is my train of thoughts about finding a good method name. Others may think completely different. HTH Joachim -- -- â¨----------------------------------------------------------------------- â¨Objektfabrik Joachim Tuchel mailto:jtuchel@objektfabrik.de â¨Fliederweg 1 http://www.objektfabrik.de D-71640 Ludwigsburg http://joachimtuchel.wordpress.com Telefon: +49 7141 56 10 86 0 Fax: +49 7141 56 10 86 1