What's missing from Phobos for Orbit (package manager)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-02-14 13:42, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> I understand. Adding functions such as the negation of empty becomes a
> judgment call.
>
> Phobos does have quite a few simple functions that could be easily
> achieved through expression composition (e.g. trim) or statement
> composition (e.g. enforce). So again it's all a matter of judgment.
>
> Walter and I don't consider the negation of empty as useful enough to
> receive a name.

How about this, I have another similar function that might be useful in 
Phobos as well.

"isBlank" and "isPresent". "isPresent" is just the opposite of "isBlank".

"isBlank" works like this:

* If it's a string - it's considered blank if it's empty or only 
contains white space

* If you can call "empty" on it - return the result

* If it's a reference type and it's null - return true

* Otherwise return false

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg