String class

[wtd]

Imagine:

code:

%removes all whitespace from a word     fcn as_string_without (predicate : function f (ch : string) : boolean) : string         if original = "" then             original := value         end if         var oldword := value         var newword := ""         if oldword ~= "" then             for i : 1 .. length (oldword)                 if not predicate (oldword (i)) then                     newword += oldword (i)                 end if             end for         end if         result newword     end as_stripped

Then to strip all punctuation:

code:

new_str := my_str -> as_string_without (is_punctuation)

[wtd]

Oh, and ericfourfour, when your string class has a method that returns a string, you should probably have it return a String object.

[Clayton]

I get it it makes so much more sense now. This way you can just pass the function and away you go

[ericfourfour]

wtd wrote:

Oh, and ericfourfour, when your string class has a method that returns a string, you should probably have it return a String object.

What? Did I miss something?

[wtd]

Well, consider:

code:

%removes all whitespace from a word     fcn as_stripped : string         if original = "" then             original := value         end if         var oldword := value         var newword := ""         if oldword ~= "" then             for i : 1 .. length (oldword)                 if oldword (i) ~= " " then                     newword += oldword (i)                 end if             end for         end if         result newword     end as_stripped

It would seem consistent to have this method, as a single example, return a String object, rather than a value of type "string".