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- Subject: Re: new string functions (was Re: Standard Libraries....)
- From: David Manura <dm.lua@...>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:34:17 -0500
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Ted Unangst wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:54 PM, David Manura wrote:
>> call it string.subst. I think most programmers would immediately
>> guess what string.subst is, except maybe the part where it takes a
>> pattern and function rather than plain strings.
>
> subst is short for substring right? :)
Oh, true :) Usually, when languages want to abbreviate substring near
the 't' they do so after the 'r': substr [1]
Looking again, it would be more common just to name it "replace" [2].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages_%28string_functions%29#substring
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages_%28string_functions%29#replace
