> I agree that with regards to 'least astonishment' the core fn should
> capitalize all characters. This is what I'd expect from a fn called
> 'capitalize'.
>
There is already an upper-case function, thus capitalize should either
capitalize the first character or all characters who begin a se
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:44:28 -0600
Grant Rettke wrote:
> Fro that principle, who is the least astonished who is it based on?
I jsut wanted to say, people coming e.g. from Python. But then I
realized it does the same thing and afterwards I was enlightened that
it doesn't matter since I never use
There is an easy solution to your problem...Just hange the fn definition
slightly. For example I am regularly using this:
(defn un-capitalize [^String s]
(let [Cfirst (subs s 0 1)
Crest (subs s 1) ]
(str (.toLowerCase Cfirst) Crest)))
It is pretty obvious what you need to do to convert the abo
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Pierre Allix
wrote:
> I think it does not follow principle of least astonishment. I would have
> expected to convert only the first character. Moreover converting the other
> characters make the function almost useless, I for instance had this string
> to capita
This seems like quite a specialised function to have in a core string
library.
To me, the only behaviour that would be generic enough to include in a core
library would be to capitalise all the letters of the string.
On 12 December 2012 17:12, Pierre Allix wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The clojure.string
Hello,
The clojure.string/capitalize function is defined as follow:
Converts first character of the string to upper-case, all other
characters to lower-case.
I think it does not follow principle of least astonishment. I would have
expected to convert only the first character. Moreover convert
