Re: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-11 Thread Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology
> every new committer needs to be VOTEd in as per every other > jakarta subproject. Oh, OK. My mistake. I have no problem languishing in Contributor status; it's just more convenient to commit changes directly to CVS than to make a patch (and bother someone else to incorporate it). - A

Re: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-10 Thread Stephen Colebourne
From: "Steven Caswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:05:09PM -0500, Steven Caswell wrote: > > > I think "bisect" is good since it explicitly means "two > > > parts" rather than "split" which returns many parts. >

Re: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-10 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 08:08 PM, Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology wrote: * abbreviate OK! How about I add this one myself? I'm a Tomcat committer; whom do I ask to add me to the karma list for commons? (I think I heard that Tomcat committers don't need a confirmation vote.) FYI (until

RE: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-09 Thread Steven Caswell
> -Original Message- > From: Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 4:25 PM > To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List' > Subject: Re: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding > Purple to StringUtils >

Re: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-09 Thread Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:05:09PM -0500, Steven Caswell wrote: > > I think "bisect" is good since it explicitly means "two > > parts" rather than "split" which returns many parts. > > Wouldn't "removeFromLast" describe the action more succiently than > "bisect" or "divide"? "from" is ambiguous.

RE: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-09 Thread Steven Caswell
See below... > -Original Message- > From: Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 3:09 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding > Purple to StringUtils &g

Re: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-09 Thread Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology
* abbreviate OK! How about I add this one myself? I'm a Tomcat committer; whom do I ask to add me to the karma list for commons? (I think I heard that Tomcat committers don't need a confirmation vote.) * integrate truncateNicely and abbreviate This I'd have to do research on; probably shoul

Re: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-06 Thread Henri Yandell
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 1) Add abbreviate(), merging StringTaglib truncateNicely functionality in > > if different. > +1 > > > 2) strdiff/strdiffat functionality added, under the names: > > differentText and differentAt. > +1

Re: [lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-06 Thread Stephen Colebourne
From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1) Add abbreviate(), merging StringTaglib truncateNicely functionality in > if different. +1 > 2) strdiff/strdiffat functionality added, under the names: > differentText and differentAt. +1 were these the suggested names? > 3) camelCaseToUnderscore. Con

[lang] Summarising Purple Was: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-06 Thread Henri Yandell
So, summarising the purple thread: 1) Add abbreviate(), merging StringTaglib truncateNicely functionality in if different. 2) strdiff/strdiffat functionality added, under the names: differentText and differentAt. 3) camelCaseToUnderscore. Consider addition of this method. I'm tempted to think

RE: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-06 Thread Steven Caswell
essage- > From: Steve Downey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:06 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils > > > From: "Steven Caswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To

Re: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-05 Thread Steve Downey
From: "Steven Caswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jakarta Commons Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 4:54 PM Subject: RE: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils > I mostly agree with Hen

RE: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-05 Thread Steven Caswell
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:53 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils > > > > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology wrote: > > > I'll list t

Re: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-05 Thread Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:52:42PM -0500, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > * String strdiffVerbose(String expected, String actual) > > > > Compare two strings, and return a verbose description of how > > they differ. Shows a window around the location to provide > > context. > > > > E.g. strdiffVerbose(

Re: [lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-05 Thread Henri Yandell
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology wrote: > I'll list these independently, so we can start haggling over > > 1. yea or nay > 2. naming > 3. API / method signature > 4. appropriate package (if lang.StringUtils is not the right place) Seems good. > for each in turn. Naturally,

[lang] Adding Purple to StringUtils

2003-03-05 Thread Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology
For many years, I've published my personal source code libraries as open source. By far the most heavily-downloaded class was Utils.java, containing my string processing routines. I'm psyched that Jakarta Commons now exists, and I'd like to donate my code to Lang.StringUtils. You can see the cod