Feature request: Path append operators for strings
Artur Skawina
art.08.09 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 2 16:08:22 PDT 2013
On 07/02/13 22:47, TommiT wrote:
> Division operator for strings doesn't make any sense, and I doubt there will ever be some other meaning for '/' that would make more sense than "a directory separator" for strings in the context of programming.
Umm,
> $ /usr/bin/pike
> Pike v7.8 release 537 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend)
> > "/a/b//c" / "/";
> (1) Result: ({ /* 5 elements */
> "",
> "a",
> "b",
> "",
> "c"
> })
That's the only sane use of the division operator on string types;
anything else would be extremely confusing.
And this still does not mean that it would be a good idea in D.
Typing out "splitter()" is not /that/ hard.
artur
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