Another idea I've been toying with for a while is adding a square brackets
method to the string class. This is a little bit like substr(), but the
default length is 1 rather than the rest of the string. This would be
fairly natural for scanning/parsing applications where you are looking at
single characters:
if option[1] == 'a' then do ....
A length can also be specified to extract additional characters.
if option[1, 2] == '-a" then do....
Unlike substr, this method will not do any padding.
This will also be added to mutablebuffer, of course. It might also be
desirable to have a "[]=" method on mutablebuffer for editing-type
operations, although it's not clear if this should be an insert or an
overlay operation.
Rick
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