Re: New "cut" operator (was: Pike 8.0 RC1)

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:50 AM, 郭雪松 <[email protected]> wrote:
> new operator feature sugest:
>
> ("cut left example"<<" ")=="left example"
> ("cut left example">>"ex")=="cut left "

NAK. It's a very specific and unobvious use of an operator that
conflict both with both the (unfortunately) adopted C++ iostream
syntax and the more obvious mathematical "much greater|lesser than".

It looks sort of useful but would do well as a functions to make sure
the code is readable. Something like this:

string cutback(string text, string divisor)
{
    return (text/divisor)[1..]*divisor;
}

string cutfront(string text, string divisor)
{
    return (text/divisor)[0];
}

With better names if possible.

-- 
Peter Bortas