Splitter quiz / survey

[Robert Fraser]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Jason House wrote:
>> Before reading your post, I was going to say that I'd expect 4, would
>> accept 1, and consider 2 or 3 to be buggy! Notice how under your new
>> proposal everyone would still get the behavior wrong when reading the
>> code.
> 
> everyone posting heavily in thiss group != everyone

Yes, but it's a representative (albeit small) sample of the user base.

> Andrei
> 
> 
> P.S. I scrolled down your post looking for counter-evidence that you 
> might have brought, but found only the please-don't-do-this-again empty 
> quote. It wastes everybody time looking in vain for nuggets of responses 
> within the quoted text.

Is consistency a good argument? std.string.split currently does (4). 
Java and C#'s split() methods work like (4). strtok does (4). Is there 
any other language/function besides Perl that does (2)?