Consolidate/Rename "LS" Bifs and Move US-Centric ones to Compat
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As pointed out in this thread, the US-centric first class formatting and parsing BIFs are outdated and don’t serve BoxLang well as a modern language. In addition the LS prefixed BIFs that don’t have a corresponding “first class” named-BIF should be renamed without the LS
Most of the “first class” BIFs are already locale aware, if the locale argument exists. Implement the following changes:
Make the LS prefixed BIFs the “first class” BIF, where applicable. In most cases this just adds a locale argument addition.
Move any US-Centric implementations to the compat module ( e.g. DollarFormat)
Rename any LS-Prefixed BIFs without the LS and move any necessary BIFs with positional argument differences to the compat module
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Jon Clausen September 12, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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The core no longer contains any `LS` prefixed BIFs. Instead all LS parent BIFs now accept a locale argument in the last position.
Examples:
The LS-prefixed variations have been moved to the compat module.
Jon Clausen September 5, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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As pointed out in this thread, the US-centric first class formatting and parsing BIFs are outdated and don’t serve BoxLang well as a modern language. In addition the
LSprefixed BIFs that don’t have a corresponding “first class” named-BIF should be renamed without theLSMost of the “first class” BIFs are already locale aware, if the locale argument exists.
Implement the following changes:
Make the
LSprefixed BIFs the “first class” BIF, where applicable. In most cases this just adds a locale argument addition.Move any US-Centric implementations to the compat module ( e.g.
DollarFormat)Rename any
LS-Prefixed BIFs without the LS and move any necessary BIFs with positional argument differences to the compat module