String.prototype.trimRight/trimLeft

[Jordan Harband]

On the contrary -"left" always begins at index 0 - "start" is sometimes
index 0, sometimes index (length - 1). I think "left" and "right" are the
right names; "start" and "end" would require unicode bidirectional stuff.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Norbert Lindenberg <
ecmascript at lindenbergsoftware.com> wrote:

> These methods should be called trimStart and trimEnd. Determining which
> parts of the string are left and right would require running the Unicode
> Bidirectional Algorithm, and that’s probably not intended here.
>
> Norbert
>
>
> > On Jul 20, 2015, at 15:09 , Dmitry Soshnikov <dmitry.soshnikov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Will somebody be so kind to present this on the following meeting for
> me, I don't have an ability to attend, and the change is pretty small (July
> 28th, 2015)?
> >
> > People were asking, and we'd like to polyfill it instead of doing regexp
> replaces. Again the spec is here:
> https://gist.github.com/DmitrySoshnikov/65a2070477fffb465048
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dmitry
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Dmitry Soshnikov <
> dmitry.soshnikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > OK, the spec is here:
> https://gist.github.com/DmitrySoshnikov/65a2070477fffb465048 Will
> appreciate review and corrections if needed.
> >
> > Dmitry
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Dmitry Soshnikov <
> dmitry.soshnikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sounds good. Yeah, I'll spec it, and add the test.
> >
> > Dmitry
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, March 17, 2015, Domenic Denicola <d at domenic.me> wrote:
> > Yeah, this seems like a shoe-in for ES7. It will probably be able to
> advance through the stages very quickly given that it already has three
> (four?) shipping implementations.
> >
> >
> >
> > Someone just needs to write up a formal spec (using Ecmarkdown! ^_^) and
> test262 tests. The only snag would be if you find non-interoperable
> behavior between browsers in the course of writing those tests, and need to
> get some patches accepted before you can reach stage 4.
> >
> >
> >
> > From: es-discuss [mailto:es-discuss-bounces at mozilla.org] On Behalf Of
> Dmitry Soshnikov
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 05:02
> > To: Tab Atkins Jr.
> > Cc: es-discuss
> > Subject: Re: String.prototype.trimRight/trimLeft
> >
> >
> >
> > Right, so from the several feedback I had so far, it seems it will make
> sense just to add to ES7? In this case we'll be able to polyfill now, the
> spec'ing it will be trivial (I'll add the spec).
> >
> >
> >
> > I guess we just need to confirm it's good to go to ES7?
> >
> >
> >
> > Dmitry
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Leon Arnott <leonarnott at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I believe opinion hasn't shifted since it was discussed
> > > [previously](
> https://esdiscuss.org/topic/standardizing-more-de-facto-functions)
> > > - in short, "show me the cowpath". (But, I've just learned that the IE
> > > Technical Preview now supports trimLeft/trimRight, so there'll soon be
> > > support for it in all the major engines. Maybe the cows are there after
> > > all.)
> >
> > I use both lstrip() and rstrip() in Bikeshed (a Python project):
> >
> >
> https://github.com/tabatkins/bikeshed/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=lstrip&type=Code
> >
> https://github.com/tabatkins/bikeshed/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=rstrip&type=Code
> >
> > In particular, lstrip() is used when I'm separating a key and value; I
> > don't want to mess with the value much at all, just pull off the
> > whitespace at the start.  rstrip() is used when I know I don't need to
> > strip from the left side, because I'm just pulling off newlines or
> > something, so might as well let the program avoid even trying.
> >
> > ~TJ
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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