On 08/01/2023 17:06, James Addison wrote:
Maybe combine the ideas by allowing a tuple where a string is used. 'a=b;c'.partition('=', (':',';')) => ('a', '=', b, ';', 'c') I like that idea - and it seems to fit neatly with the existing
On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 13:20, Barry Scott <barry@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: partition contract: the inclusion of the matched-delimiter as an item in the result-tuple would reduce match ambiguity (rationale: imagining a use case where a caller would like to provide multiple delimiters during method invocation, and then subsequently check which delimiter was used at a given match position).
Since it's both orthogonal to (does not depend-on, nor is it a dependency-of) multiple-partition-arguments and composible with (can be combined with) multiple-partition-arguments, perhaps it should be advocated-for as a separate proposal? (rationale: that would allow either proposal to advance without delaying the other -- bearing in mind a hopefully-unlikely chance of merge conflicts if they reach release-readiness implementation status in parallel)
I'd suggest going with the tuples and extra args in one proposal. It possible that its more likely to be loved with the tuple as that removes an objection. Barry