In the wild I've seen ltrim rtrim which are variations of trimLeft and trimRight and padLeft padRight or lpad, rpad for other forms. For stings I think of left and right as leading and trailing and think of start and end as more position indicators of like slice or a range.
-JDD On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Dmitry Soshnikov < [email protected]> wrote: > OK, it was added to the agenda for the next meeting (will be presented > by Sebastian Markbage), so can be discussed in detail. I agree that > "start", and "end" are now probably better fit (because of i18n, and a > strong correlation with "startsWith" and "endsWith"). We can probably > ignore the de-facto shipped in browsers, they will just implement in > addition `trimStart` and `trimEnd`, and eventually deprecate the "right" > and "left". > > Dmitry > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Claude Pache <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> > Le 21 juil. 2015 à 08:28, Jordan Harband <[email protected]> a écrit : >> > >> > On the contrary -"left" always begins at index 0 - "start" is sometimes >> index 0, sometimes index (length - 1). >> >> Counter-example: ES6 methods `String#startsWith` and `String#endsWith` >> are named correctly. >> >> > I think "left" and "right" are the right names; "start" and "end" would >> require unicode bidirectional stuff. >> >> No, because characters in Unicode strings are ordered logically, not >> visually. >> >> —Claude >> >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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