The attachments didn't seem to come through. I am not on the commons PMC
but I would be -1 for changing the existing functionality. They already
work fine for Java and work already as Apache Groovy extension methods:
@Grab('org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.10')
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils
use(StringUtils) {
assert 'The quick brown fox'.abbreviateMiddle('..', 8) == 'The..fox'
assert 'abcdef'.rotate(3) == 'defabc'
}
Rather than talking about "porting", why not just create a thin
re-purposing layer that provides additional functionality to Kotlin users.
That would be easy to do as a separate project and could be incorporated
into commons lang at a later date if there was sufficient interest?
Cheers, Paul.
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 2:24 PM Isira Seneviratne <isirase...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> <isirase...@gmail.com>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 8:41 PM Isira Seneviratne <isirase...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm a new contributor, but I've been using Commons Lang for a while now,
>> and I feel that porting Commons Lang to Kotlin would be very useful for
>> Kotlin development, as a lot of its methods (particularly those in the
>> Utils classes) are not present in the Kotlin standard library, and these
>> could be written as extensions
>> <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/extensions.html>.
>>
>> What do you guys think?
>> --
>> Isira Seneviratne
>> isirase...@gmail.com
>>
>
> I have attached some sample files if anyone is interested.
> --
> Isira Seneviratne
> isirase...@gmail.com
>
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