Comment on D or d come on
lemmonade@lemm.ee 11 months agoYou could also say that down should not complete to download since those are completely different strings and you shouldn’t expect one to get you the other.
Comment on D or d come on
lemmonade@lemm.ee 11 months agoYou could also say that down should not complete to download since those are completely different strings and you shouldn’t expect one to get you the other.
Feyter@programming.dev 11 months ago
Sorry,
downis a substring ofdownloadI don’t get your point either?Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Substring is not string.
If they were interchangeable, then “D” & “d” should be too.
Feyter@programming.dev 11 months ago
downmatchesdown*because*also includes empty string. Alsodownloadmatchesdown*DmatchesD*butdis not matchingD*becauseDis a different character thand.lemmonade@lemm.ee 11 months ago
but why do we have to match specifically against
substr*? it’s not a law of nature, we could also match against the regex(?i)substr(?-i).*not saying that one option is necessarily better, but I don’t see a good reason for which it any one of these options is terrible