On 2013-02-12 15:21, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Some answers:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:38:53 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote:
* std.process - I have not used it myself but I've heard it's not optimal
I want to get this remedied. Won't make it in 2.062, but I want to
finish this in the next month.
* std.getopt - Doesn't support the following:
* Required arguments
* Restricting the values of a given argument
* No way to automatically create a help/usage list out of the
arguments
* Handling positional arguments
* No support for commands/action. That is "git commit", "commit"
would be the command/action
* Handle multiple command lines
* Validation of the arguments
I know std.getopt doesn't support all these, but couldn't you support
them externally? I mean, let getopt assign the values, then perform the
logic based on what you got? You have to write the logic anyway. I
suppose one of the missing pieces here is whether an option was present
or not. All you get is the result.
You can handle the command before handling the options, as long as you
require the command to be the first parameter.
Various convince functions:
* any - Opposite of empty
!empty
* last - Returns the last element of an array
arr[$-1];
arr.back;
* map, find and any for associative arrays
Really, we need an AA range...
* pluralize - Takes a string and a count. If the count is greater than
1 it converts the word in the string to plural
basic version:
string pluralize(string x, int count)
{
return count > 1 ? x ~ "s" : x;
}
Now, you probably would need a simple mechanism to do the different
plural forms. Sometimes 'es' must be added, sometimes 'y' must be
changed to 'ies', etc. But that should be a simple switch statement.
The switch statement would select a different ending, and a prefix count
based on the current ending.
Then the return would be:
return count > 1 ? x[0..pcount] ~ ending : x;
I don't need examples of how to implement these functions. I'm asking
what of these could we add to Phobos. I already have all the
functionality in place. I'm trying to estimate the cost of moving these
to Phobos, if it's worth porting Orbit to only use Phobos.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
