Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Brad Roberts wrote:
Without looking at the docs, code, or compiling and running a test,
what will
this do:
foreach(x, splitter(",a,b,", ","))
writefln("x = %s", a);
I'll make it multiple choice:
choice 1)
x = a
x = b
choice 2)
x =
x = a
x = b
choice 3)
x = a
x = b
x =
choice 4)
x =
x = a
x = b
x =
Later,
Brad
Thanks for bringing this to attention, Brad. Splitter does what Perl's
split does: 2. This means comma is an item terminator and not an item
separator.
This is the problem, I think. Linguistically, "split" happens at
seperators (split points), so it should be 4. The argument of utility
from Perl is reasonable, but with those semantics I think it needs a
different name - you don't "split" at "terminators". You could get away
with terminators in a function name like C's "strcol" or "collate",
where the intuition for how the separation occurs isn't nearly as
strong, but not for "split".
