with the separate arguments solution the 'limit' argument is unusable
with the array solution you have a punctuation nightmare
the required regex seems easier in comparison
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Benjamin (Inglor) Gruenbaum <
ing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Splitting by one value or anothe
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Rick Waldron
wrote:
> > What about the version with the overload accepting an Array instead? It
seems more backwards compatible than the varargs version.
I meant the version accepting an array `.split([a,b,c])` rather than
`.split(a,b,c)` but the 12 years and t
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Benjamin (Inglor) Gruenbaum <
ing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <
> andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > How could change 12+ years of legacy be considered inexpensive ?
>
> This proposal does not break anything, the o
also, to reply your question "Are you against changes like `.contains` or
`.startsWith` too?"
Absolutely not, and these are new methods indeed. Perfectly in line with
what you wrote:
> Why have `str.contains` if you can just do `~str.indexOf`. Why have
`.startsWith`, or `.indexOf` on arrays?
You
It does break in many ways as also Brendan said.
`''.split(what, ever)`
would break
plus
`"some1,2thing".split([1,2])`
you have no idea what you could find in legacy code ... so whatever a 12+
years old legacy does shold keep doing like that and if you really want to
put your array in there fo
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How could change 12+ years of legacy be considered inexpensive ?
This proposal does not break anything, the only thing that will/might work
differently is people passing an array to .split right now and expe
It's hard to add extra optional arguments to a long-standing built-in.
People write code that passes an extra arg that has been ignored till
the change; browsers that try shipping the new version then break that
content, user blames browser (rightly so) but also the page, sometimes
(not right).
typo: Non "highly trained professionals" should *do* simple things
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How could change 12+ years of legacy be considered inexpensive ?
>
> Non "highly trained professionals" should be simple things or try to
How could change 12+ years of legacy be considered inexpensive ?
Non "highly trained professionals" should be simple things or try to learn
something new that won't hurt, that's why Stack Overflow exists in first
place, to ask for help or explanations about things.
This request sounds to me like
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >also, this is the same: `myString.split(/[ -/+]/)`
Yes, that's true, not sure how that works for multi character delimiters.
> maybe it's better to explain those users that knowing RegExp might bring
bene
also, this is the same:
`myString.split(/[ -/+]/)`
maybe it's better to explain those users that knowing RegExp might bring
benefits for their purpose (coding) ?
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I stopped here
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 201
I stopped here
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Benjamin (Inglor) Gruenbaum <
ing...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ```
> myString.split(/ |-|\/|\+/g); // this is no fun to read
>
> myString.split(" ","-","/","+"); // this is easier
> myString.split([" ","-","/","+"]); // this is also easier.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Rick Waldron
wrote:
>
>This is subjective, as I have no trouble reading and understanding what
this means and is expected to do (also subjective).
Of course, this is another way to do it that does not require knowing
regular expressions. I have no doubt that bei
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Benjamin (Inglor) Gruenbaum <
ing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Splitting by one value or another seems to be a pretty common use case if
> Stack Overflow questions and personal experience are an indication. For
> example "-" and " " and "/".
>
> Currently, the solution i
Splitting by one value or another seems to be a pretty common use case if
Stack Overflow questions and personal experience are an indication. For
example "-" and " " and "/".
Currently, the solution is to pass a regular expression to
String.prototype.split .
However, it would be nice to be able t
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