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 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

2003-03-10 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. Wouldn't

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

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 * abbreviate OK! How

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... Which is clearer:

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 On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:05:09PM

[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] 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. Consider

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 were these the