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Henri Yandell commented on LANG-410:
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Looks good - but the patch doesn't work. I think Gary and Matt made changes
just after you did this and it's thrown things off.
Could you update and repatch?
> Ambiguous / confusing names in StringUtils replace* methods
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>
> Key: LANG-410
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-410
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sebb
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: StringUtils.patch
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> The recently added replaceEach* methods use "repl" for the original string
> list, and "with" for the new (replacement) string list.
> These names are rather confusing.
> RE engines tend to use words such as:
> Perl:
> searchlist
> replacementlist
> ORO:
> pattern
> replacement
> Java has String.replace(regex, replacement)
> In all cases, "replacement" is used for the NEW string, not the original
> string which is to be replaced.
> Seems to me that searchString/List and replacement[List] would be unambiguous
> as well as descriptive.
> Also useful in IDEs which show possible method completions.
> Changing the names of the parameters would not affect the API.
> Patch to follow
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