Hi Luke,
For String.prototype.toArray, I didn't propose different behavior. The part of
my message that you omitted continues "The function should be named to clearly
indicate that it returns an array of UTF-16 code units. This also allows us to
offer a parallel function that returns an array o
Fortunately we dropped reverse in the TC 39 meeting yesterday - nobody had an
idea who would use it.
I brought up combining character sequences as a concern for the other proposed
functions (startsWith etc.). There the majority opinion was that the model of
the existing String functions, ignori
> 1) String.prototype.reverse(), as proposed, corrupts supplementary
> characters. Clause 6 of Ecma-262 redefines the word "character" as "a 16-bit
> unsigned value used to represent a single 16-bit unit of text", that is, a
> UTF-16 code unit. In contrast, the phrase "Unicode character" is used
>> 1) String.prototype.reverse(), as proposed, corrupts supplementary
>> characters.
It was agreed at the meeting yesterday that this concern is significant enough,
and reverse does not have sufficiently compelling use cases, so should not be
included.
>> 2) String.prototype.toArray(), as pr
On 16 November 2011 01:37, Luke Hoban wrote:
> * String Extras
> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:string_extras
>
Those pretty much don't add anything useful to String IMO :(
I think a String function everyone has been crying out for is HTML entity
encode/decode.
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Hi Luke,
A few comments on the proposed String functions:
1) String.prototype.reverse(), as proposed, corrupts supplementary characters.
Clause 6 of Ecma-262 redefines the word "character" as "a 16-bit unsigned value
used to represent a single 16-bit unit of text", that is, a UTF-16 code unit.
The Harmony proposals page contains several additions to the core String,
Number and Math libraries, adding some of the most commonly created and
requested helper operations to these libraries for ES6. I've uploaded to the
wiki a first draft of candidate spec text for these library additions:
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