Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
Georg Brandl <g.brandl <at> gmx.net> writes:
It does, but I don't see how it contradicts my proposition. find() takes a
substring as well.
Well, I'm not sure what your proposal was :-)
Did you mean to keep split() out of the String interface, or to provide a
default implementation of it based on find() and slicing?
You wrote:
> If we stay minimalistic we could consider that the three basic operations that
> define a string are:
> - testing for substring containment
> - splitting on a substring into a list of substrings
> - slicing in order to extract a substring
I argued that instead of split, find belongs into that list.
(BTW, length inquiry would be a fourth.)
That the other methods, among them split, can be implemented in terms
of those, follows from both sets of basic operations.
Georg
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