On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 11:22 AM Paul King <paul.king.as...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The attachments didn't seem to come through. I am not on the commons PMC
> but I would be -1 for changing the existing functionality. They already
> work fine for Java and work already as Apache Groovy extension methods:
>
> @Grab('org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.10')
> import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils
>
> use(StringUtils) {
> assert 'The quick brown fox'.abbreviateMiddle('..', 8) == 'The..fox'
> assert 'abcdef'.rotate(3) == 'defabc'
> }
>
> Rather than talking about "porting", why not just create a thin
> re-purposing layer that provides additional functionality to Kotlin users.
> That would be easy to do as a separate project and could be incorporated
> into commons lang at a later date if there was sufficient interest?
>
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Thanks!
> Cheers, Paul.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 2:24 PM Isira Seneviratne <isirase...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > <isirase...@gmail.com>
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 8:41 PM Isira Seneviratne <isirase...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm a new contributor, but I've been using Commons Lang for a while now,
> >> and I feel that porting Commons Lang to Kotlin would be very useful for
> >> Kotlin development, as a lot of its methods (particularly those in the
> >> Utils classes) are not present in the Kotlin standard library, and these
> >> could be written as extensions
> >> <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/extensions.html>.
> >>
> >> What do you guys think?
> >> --
> >> Isira Seneviratne
> >> isirase...@gmail.com
> >>
> >
> > I have attached some sample files if anyone is interested.
> > --
> > Isira Seneviratne
> > isirase...@gmail.com
> >
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