Re: additional methods in NSMutableString

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 4 Jan 2005, at 09:40, Manuel Guesdon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Would it be possible to add the following methods for NSMutableString 
> in GNUstep additions ?
> - (void) abbreviateWithTildeInPath;
> - (void) appendingPathComponent: (NSString*)aString;
> - (void) appendingPathExtension: (NSString*)aString;
> - (void) deletingLastPathComponent;
> - (void) deletingPathExtension;
> - (void) expandingTildeInPath;
> - (void) resolvingSymlinksInPath;
> - (void) standardizingPath;
>
> Without them, we add to use NSString stringByXXX and create many 
> (uneeded in some cases) temporary string.
> When searchng for a particular file in a tree, we build a lot of this 
> temporary
> strings...

I don't see why not, but I wouldn't use those names (apart from the 
first one).

Method names are generally the correct english to describe what they do,
so we should use 'append', 'delete', 'expand', 'resolve', 'standardize' 
without
the 'ing' suffixes, as these methods will modify the receiver rather 
than
returning a new string.

eg.
The method 'stringByDeletingPathExtension' returns the string formed by
deleting the path extension from the receiver, while the counterpart 
for a
mutable string would be 'deletePathExtension', which tells the receiver 
to
delete its own path extension.