Re: Associative array
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Mar 09, 2011
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petelomax said...
menno said...
Yes Pete the difference is what is meant by insert ? A insert before or insert after a given position .
I have to think about why or what is better .
A function simply named "insert()" rather than "insert_before()" or "insert_after()" is inherently ambiguous, however I think the questions you should focus on are:
- how much legacy code must I change?
- how much do I want RDS Eu code to run unchanged on PEU?
- is the RDS Eu team likely to deprecate insert in favor of insert_before/after?
I don't think it's ambiguous. It says to me: Insert something. Put it here. The result follows logically from that.
The one I have trouble with is replace. The start parameter is obvious. But I can never remember if the second one is length or end position (it's the end position). I do that with just about any sort of substring function in just about any language, though.
Matt
PS It's OpenEuphoria now.
