String.normalized is not trimmed about ceylon-sdk HOT 6 CLOSED

Looking at the code it does indeed not trim the spaces from the beginning nor the end. @gavinking I assume the docs are correct here and it's the implementation that's wrong?

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Dunno, what do y'all think it should do?

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On 02/01/2013, at 7:11 PM, Tako Schotanus [email protected] wrote:

Looking at the code it does indeed not trim the spaces from the beginning nor the end. @gavinking I assume the docs are correct here and it's the implementation that's wrong?

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I think it should trim, like the doc text says.

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I think that trimming and collapsing should be done as described by the docs.
But I wonder if the attribute shouldn't be named normalizeSpace (or normalizeWhitespace) instead and normalize should be used for Unicode Normalization (http://www.unicode.org/faq/normalization.html). This would be more aligned with Java (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/Normalizer.html) and even NET (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.normalize.aspx). I don't know if such an API breakage would be possible at the current stage, but it might be worth thinking about.

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@tombentley could you move this issue to ceylon.language if it isn't already fixed please?

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