[stringtemplate-interest] Functional List Formatting

[Terence Parr]

Hi Fred, There is no reason that front in reverse can't be provided in  
that they do not violate any of the rules.  You can probably fake it  
with a format option for a moment and a renderer.
Ter
On Feb 25, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Fred wrote:

> I have doing some things related to lists in string templates that tax
> the current set of functions.
> Specifically, 'first', 'last', 'rest', 'tail' aren't quite do it for  
> me.
> In particular, I need to do things like...
>  'front'  : kind of like 'rest' but basically everything but 'last'
>  'reverse' : reverse the order of the list (useful for things like
>  building java package names)
>  'sublist(list,0,-2)+sublist(list,-1)' : all but the second to the  
> last item.
>
> ok, that last one is garbage but you get the idea.
> I know this is verging on something not unlike a functional language
> and you may have good reasons for not going there.
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