Talk:Substring/Top and tail

Duplicate task?

This appears to be the same task as done by Substring… –Donal Fellows 08:48, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Substring does not cover first character removal, and initial consensus that the task is too far into development to add requirements. It is probably better to split this into sub tasks anyway, because there are several different substring methods which have not been included on that task. --Markhobley 11:30, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

possible errors

It seems that several examples will fail when the original string is null (length zero) or only a single character. I don't know that much about BIFs (built-in-functions) for the many languages, so I can only speak for a small number of them. -- Gerard Schildberger 05:23, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

A little over the top in the Swift-section?

In the Swift-section I wrote an answer, and a few days later User:Hooman, extended the answer and included loads of stuff related to how Swift can handle multiple types using the same methods. I, as a novice programmer in Swift, learned stuff, but isn't this somewhat off topic for this page? How do you suggest handling/correcting it to a shorter more precise answer? --Holroy (talk) 18:04, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

OK, I will remove the examples for generic functions. --Hooman (talk) 21:40, 6 March 2015 (UTC)