On 2011-06-17 09:13, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2011-06-13 18:55, bearophile wrote: > > Jonathan M Davis: > >> But there are a number of functions in > >> std.string which at least _look_ like their of limited usefulness, and > >> if they're really not used, then they shouldn't be there. > > > > What functions? > > > > (I think in Python I have used capitalize only once so far.) > > > > Bye, > > bearophile > > For example, it's used quite a lot in Ruby on Rails, converting names > between upper and lowercase, between class and table names and so on.
It's looking like the verdict on this is that capitalize is definitely used and should be kept around but that capwords isn't worth keeping. - Jonathan M Davis
