Isn't "bluetooth printer" too niche a use case? Any other examples?
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 17:59 Ricardo Zorzal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Isiah Meadows , don't have any problems in combine this two functions, but > if it can be done with a native functions it could pass more confiability > to javascript functions, avoiding polyfills, like I do. > > In the past, when we did not had padStart and padEnd, we were using some > polyfills functions to construct this two functions for us, then the > comunity looked at this features and then started to implementing it. BTW, > I do not know why we did not implementing this function when the padStart e > padEnd was developed too. > > And again, I think it's not hard to be done, but necessary. And Claude > Pache, thanks for your exemple. > > Naveen Chawla, yes this is the idea, as the same as the other "pad" > functions, and look at the exemple from Claude Pache, it can be done like > he coded. > > I hope you guys understending that this is necessary to growth the > language and make it more pratical than now. > > Perhaps has other developers searching for this solution and they seen it > in libs, polyfills and frameworks, but they do not like the idea to import > other lib in the project just to use this feature. > > And again, it seems not hard to be done. > > > Att, > > *Ricardo Zorzal Davila * > ------------------------------ > *De:* es-discuss <[email protected]> em nome de Claude Pache > <[email protected]> > *Enviado:* quarta-feira, 22 de agosto de 2018 04:49 > *Para:* Naveen Chawla > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Assunto:* Re: proposal: String.prototype.padCenter > > ```js > x.padStart((x.length + 32)/2).padEnd(32) > ``` > > (BTW, I don’t like this habit of top-posting the reply. Please look below > for the question I’m answering, and read the mail backwards for more > context.) > > —Claude > > Le 22 août 2018 à 05:47, Naveen Chawla <[email protected]> a écrit : > > How would you combine padStart and padEnd to get the desired result? Just > curious, because the idea would be to create a minimum of 32 chars with the > original string centered inside the "padding" (if there is any) > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 07:26 Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> wrote: > > What's wrong with combining `padStart` with `padEnd`? I'm not sure this is > worth it, since you can easily emulate it anyways (as you stated). > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 16:44 Ricardo Zorzal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello guys, I here to talk about padStart, padEnd and my new proposal > "padCenter", I think it is not hard to develop because we already had > padStart and padEnd. > > I thought that we need to add one more feature to String's prototype, and > it is not a hard work. So the proposal is to create the > String.prototype.padCenter that centralize a string with a max character > lenght, equals we do when call the "pad" functions. > > For exemple, when we call padStart > > ```javascript > "MY-TEST".padStart(32) > //result: " MY-TEST" > ``` > > and when we call padEnd: > > ```javascript > "MY-TEST".padEnd(32) > //result: "MY-TEST " > ``` > > how about that: > > ```javascript > "MY-TEST".padCenter(32) > //result: " MY-TEST " > ``` > > I'm searching it for a long time and I seen people talking about it in > different use cases. But for me it will be usefull when I need to send some > text data to my bluetooth printer, becouse the length of his line is 32 and > I need to centralize the data and adjust the line to right and left. > > I think this feature can improve the language and it will be useful for > other developers like me. > > Although we has libs that has an implementation of it > https://lodash.com/docs#pad > http://gabceb.github.io/underscore.string.site/#pad > https://vocajs.com/#pad > I think it can be done for native functions too > > And it is native for other languages, such as: > 1. PHP ( > https://www.w3schools.com/php/showphp.asp?filename=demo_func_string_str_pad3 > ) > 2. Python (https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.center > ) > 3. Ruby (https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/String.html#center-method) > 4. R ( > https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/stringr/versions/1.3.1/topics/str_pad > ) > 5. etc... > > > What do you guys think ? > > ( We can call it "pad" instead of "padCenter" haha ) > > > Att, > > *Ricardo Zorzal Davila * > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > >
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