Re: About adding DGM startsWith(String...) and endsWith(String...)

[Jochen Theodorou]

On 31.12.2017 13:24, Daniel.Sun wrote:
Hi all,
       I am going to add startsWith(String...) and endsWith(String...) for
java.lang.String(i.e. if and only if the string starts with/ends with any
specified strings, return true), because many senarios require them. For
example:

The following code
    
https://github.com/apache/groovy/blob/master/gradle/assemble.gradle#L352-L355
can be simplified as
     it.file.name.startsWith('asm-', 'antlr-', 'antlr4-')

     The similar senario appears at:
https://github.com/apache/groovy/blob/master/gradle/assemble.gradle#L366-L369

     Any thoughts?

I think the name should express the iterative aspect something like 
startsWithAny of findStartsWith. And then there is also the variant with 
an offset in java-lang.String. Would we have that as well?

But frankly my feeling is that it would be better to find a generic 
solution for this kind of construct, instead of having more methods in 
DGM. But that not stop us in the past either and I do not have an idea 
to present here as well.

bye Jochen