DMD 2.064 changelog typo?
Philip Miess
philip.Miess at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 30 16:43:13 PDT 2013
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:56:04 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/30/13 2:14 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 29 October 2013 at 23:39:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I'm okay with either choice, just not both. There's precedent in other
>>> languages for stripLeft and stripRight, but stripFront/Back are closer
>>> to D's terminology. I have a very mild preference for the latter.
>>
>> Funny you should say that, because my first reflex was to google search
>> "stripLeft" to see if there was a precedent for it, and found nothing
>> outside of dlang.
>>
>> Who else uses "stripLeft" in their standard library?
>>
>> I vote to change the names to stripFront/stripBack, and make deprecated
>> aliases of stripLeft/stripRight in std.string.
>
> I could have sworn googling for them would return a bunch of languages
> and libraries. I could only find on Haskell library. But then I could
> only find one library using stringFront/Back.
>
> Since we've already had stripLeft/Back for strings, I vote to stop this
> changing names nonsense. Either pair is good, and we've voted for one
> already.
>
>
> Andrei
Left & Right or L & R are apparently used in VB6 like languages, TCL,
Python, Delphi & TSQL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimming_(computer_programming)
Phil
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