8 May
2024
8 May
'24
3:59 a.m.
On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 17:57, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum 10353@lyskom.lysator.liu.se wrote:
Yes, although I'm still not sure this follows the principle of least astonishment:
If no matches results in "", and the result is the sum of the matches, wouldn't you expect the result in this case to be ""+4+7, i.e. the string "47"? If an arithmetic sum is expected then you should get 0 from a non-match IMO...
Well, you do get zero for a non-match, so ... I guess so? :)
object buf = Stdio.Buffer("asdf"); buf->match("qwer");
(1) Result: 0
But I don't think that's quite the same as a null sum.
ChrisA