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