Name: Anonymous 2011-05-21 18:46
CL has
String trimming is all nice and useful, but what if I want to trim lists or vectors? What if I want to invert their result (return margins, instead of middle), like haskell's `init`? Why there are 3 functions, when CL has keywords? Could they also have keywords for capitalize/downcase/upcase work? It would be nice to have a full blown string processing DSL.
string-trim string-left-trim string-right-trimString trimming is all nice and useful, but what if I want to trim lists or vectors? What if I want to invert their result (return margins, instead of middle), like haskell's `init`? Why there are 3 functions, when CL has keywords? Could they also have keywords for capitalize/downcase/upcase work? It would be nice to have a full blown string processing DSL.