library/string.m:
Delete long-deprecated substring/3 function and substring/4 predicate.
The newly introduced `string_piece' type has a substring/3 data
constructor which takes (start, end) offsets into the base string,
whereas the function and predicate take (start, count) arguments.
To reduce potential confusion, delete the deprecated function and
predicate.
Delete other deprecated substring predicates and functions as well.
tests/general/Mercury.options:
tests/general/string_foldl_substring.exp:
tests/general/string_foldl_substring.m:
tests/general/string_foldr_substring.exp:
tests/general/string_foldr_substring.m:
tests/hard_coded/Mercury.options:
tests/hard_coded/string_substring.m:
Delete tests for deprecated predicates.
tests/tabling/mercury_java_parser_dead_proc_elim_bug.m:
tests/tabling/mercury_java_parser_dead_proc_elim_bug2.m:
tests/valid/mercury_java_parser_follow_code_bug.m:
Replace calls to unsafe_substring with unsafe_between.
NEWS:
Announce the changes.
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Deprecate string.substring, string.foldl_substring, etc. in favour of
new procedures named string.between, string.foldl_between, etc.
The "between" procedures take a pair of [Start, End) endpoints instead
of Start, Count arguments. The reasons for this change are:
- the "between" procedures are more convenient
- "between" should be unambiguous. You can guess that it takes an End
argument instead of a Count argument without looking up the manual.
- Count arguments necessarily counted code units, but when working with
non-ASCII strings, almost the only way that the values would be arrived at
is by substracting one end point from another.
- it paves the way for a potential change to replace string offsets with an
abstract type. We cannot do that if users regularly have to perform a
subtraction between two offsets.
library/string.m:
Add string.foldl_between, string.foldl2_between,
string.foldr_between, string.between.
Deprecate the old substring names.
Replace string.substring_by_codepoint by string.between_codepoints.
compiler/elds_to_erlang.m:
compiler/error_util.m:
compiler/rbmm.live_variable_analysis.m:
compiler/timestamp.m:
extras/posix/samples/mdprof_cgid.m:
library/bitmap.m:
library/integer.m:
library/lexer.m:
library/parsing_utils.m:
mdbcomp/trace_counts.m:
profiler/demangle.m:
Conform to changes.
tests/general/Mercury.options:
tests/general/string_foldl_substring.exp:
tests/general/string_foldl_substring.m:
tests/general/string_foldr_substring.exp:
tests/general/string_foldr_substring.m:
tests/hard_coded/Mercury.options:
tests/hard_coded/string_substring.m:
Test both between and substring procedures.
tests/hard_coded/string_codepoint.exp:
tests/hard_coded/string_codepoint.exp2:
tests/hard_coded/string_codepoint.m:
Update names in test outputs.
NEWS:
Announce the change.
