"Max Samukha" <spam...@d-coding.com> wrote in message news:ighvca$ap...@digitalmars.com... > On 01/11/2011 05:36 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote: >> Yes, what I meant was that the names are stripl and stripr yet the >> description of >> those functions are strip leading and strip trailing... at least put >> strip left >> and string right on the description so it matches the names. > > Sorry for misunderstanding. > > I don't think that the description needs to match the names literally. > However, I would aviod "trailing" and "leading", because in RTL > environments they can have the opposite meaning.
I would have thought RTL languages got stored as RTL. If so, then "leading" and "trailing" would be correct and "left"/"right" would be wrong (unless the internal behavior of stripl and stripr takes language-direction into account, which would surprise me).
