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Re[2]: NSString.m / stringWithoutPrefix: (was Re[2]: GSWeb probs.)
From: |
Manuel Guesdon |
Subject: |
Re[2]: NSString.m / stringWithoutPrefix: (was Re[2]: GSWeb probs.) |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:46:35 +0200 (CEST) |
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:30:41 +0100 Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden>
wrote:
>| I renamed it to stringByDeletingPrefix: to be consistent with the naming
>| conventions of the NSString class.
>| However, I think these methods should probably be deprecated and removed
>| entirely, as they are trivial to implement and I'd really like to remove
>| as much non-standard stuff as we reasonably can.
I globaly agree but may be we could move "GNUstep extensions" to a separated
library instead of just removing these addons ?
>| After all, we can write [foo substringFromIndex: [bar length]] almost as
>| easily as writing [foo stringWithoutPrefix: bar]
I'm not sure. It should be coded something like [string
substringToIndex:[string length]-[ext length]] which is less easy
to understand when reading the code and, IMHO, less error-proof.
Manuel
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