On 1/11/11 1:45 PM, Jerry Quinn wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
On 1/9/11 4:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
There's a lot of junk in std.string that should be gone. I'm trying to
motivate myself to port some functions to different string widths and...
it's not worth it.
What functions do you think we should remove from std.string? Let's make
a string and then send them the way of the dino.
Thanks,
Andrei
I have uploaded a preview of the changed APIs here:
http://d-programming-language.org/cutting-edge/phobos/std_string.html
Unclear if iswhite() refers to ASCII whitespace or Unicode. If Unicode, which
version of the standard?
Not sure.
enum dchar LS = '\u2028'; /// UTF line
separator
enum dchar PS = '\u2029'; /// UTF
paragraph separator
bool iswhite(dchar c)
{
return c <= 0x7F
? indexOf(whitespace, c) != -1
: (c == PS || c == LS);
}
Which version?
Same comment for icmp(). Also, in the Unicode standard, case folding can
depend on the specific language.
That uses toUniLower. Not sure how that works.
There is room for ascii-only functions, but unless a D version of ICU
is going to be done separately, it would be nice to have full
unicode-aware functions available.
Yah, I'm increasingly thinking of defining an AsciiChar entity and
perhaps a Zstring one for zero-terminated strings.
You've got chop() marked as deprecated. Is popBack() going to make
sense as something that removes a variable number of chars from a
string in the CR-LF case? That might be a bit too magical.
Well I found little use for chop in e.g. Perl. People either use chomp
or want to remove the last character. I think chop is useless.
Rather than zfill, what about modifying ljustify, rjustify, and
center to take an optional fill character?
Yah, I wanted to do that but postponed because it's quite a bit of work
with general dchars etc.
One set of functions I'd like to see are startsWith() and endsWith(). I find
them frequently useful in Java and an irritating lack in the C++ standard
library.
Yah, those are in std.algorithm. Ideally we'd move everything that's
applicable beyond strings to std.algorithm.
Andrei
