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-# Strings
-
-Strings are implemented as immutable UTF-8-encoded values using:
-
-- The Boehm Cord library for efficient storage and concatenation.
-- GNU libunistring for unicode functionality (grapheme cluster counts,
- capitalization, etc.)
-- My own BP library for simple pattern matching operations (similar to regex)
-
-## Syntax
-
-Strings have a flexible syntax designed to make it easy to hold values from
-different languages without the need to have lots of escape sequences and
-without using printf-style string formatting.
-
-```
-// Basic string:
-str := "Hello world"
-str2 := 'Also a string'
-str3 := `Backticks too`
-```
-
-## Line Splits
-
-Long strings can be split across multiple lines by having two or more dots at
-the start of a new line on the same indentation level that started the string:
-
-```
-str := "This is a long
-.... line that is split in code"
-```
-
-## Multi-line Strings
-
-Multi-line strings have indented (i.e. at least one tab more than the start of
-the string) text inside quotation marks. The leading and trailing newline are
-ignored:
-
-```
-multi_line := "
- This string has multiple lines.
- Line two.
-
- You can split a line
-.... using two or more dots to make an elipsis.
-
- Remember to include whitespace after the elipsis if desired.
-
- Or don't if you're splitting a long word like supercalifragilisticexpia
-....lidocious
-
- This text is indented by one level in the string
-
- "quotes" are ignored unless they're at the same indentation level as the
-.... start of the string.
-
- The end (no newline after this).
-"
-```
-
-## String Interpolations
-
-Inside a double quoted string, you can use a dollar sign (`$`) to insert an
-expression that you want converted to a string. This is called string
-interpolation:
-
-```
-// Interpolation:
-my_var := 5
-str := "My var is $my_var!"
-// Equivalent to "My var is 5!"
-
-// Using parentheses:
-str := "Sum: $(1 + 2)"
-// equivalent to "Sum: 3"
-```
-
-Single-quoted strings do not have interpolations:
-
-```
-// No interpolation here:
-str := 'Sum: $(1 + 2)'
-```
-
-## String Escapes
-
-Unlike other languages, backslash is *not* a special character inside of a
-string. For example, `"x\ny"` has the characters `x`, `\`, `n`, `y`, not a
-newline. Instead, a series of character escapes act as complete string literals
-without quotation marks:
-
-```
-newline := \n
-crlf := \r\n
-quote := \"
-```
-
-These string literals can be used as interpolation values with or without
-parentheses, depending on which you find more readable:
-
-```
-two_lines := "one$(\n)two"
-has_quotes := "some $\"quotes$\" here"
-```
-
-However, in general it is best practice to use multi-line strings to avoid these problems:
-
-```
-str := "
- This has
- multiple lines and "quotes" too!
-"
-```
-
-### Multi-line Strings
-
-There are two reasons for strings to span multiple lines in code: either you
-have a string that contains newlines and you want to represent it without `\n`
-escapes, or you have a long single-line string that you want to split across
-multiple lines for readability. To support this, you can use newlines inside of
-strings with indentation-sensitivity. For splitting long lines, use two or more
-"."s at the same indentation level as the start of the string literal:
-
-```
-single_line := "This is a long string that
-.... spans multiple lines"
-```
-For strings that contain newlines, you may put multiple indented lines inside
-the quotes:
-
-```
-multi_line := "
- line one
- line two
- this line is indented
- last line
-"
-```
-
-Strings may only end on lines with the same indentation as the starting quote
-and nested quotes are ignored:
-
-```
-multi_line := "
- Quotes in indented regions like this: " don't count
-"
-```
-
-If there is a leading or trailing newline, it is ignored and not included in
-the string.
-
-```
-str := "
- one line
-"
-
->>> str == "one line"
-=== yes
-```
-
-Additional newlines *are* counted though:
-
-```
-str := "
-
- blank lines
-
-"
-
->>> str == "{\n}blank lines{\n}"
-```
-
-### Customizable $-Strings
-
-Sometimes you might need to use a lot of literal `$`s or quotation marks in a
-string. In such cases, you can use the more customizable form of strings. The
-customizable form lets you explicitly specify which character to use for
-interpolation and which characters to use for delimiting the string.
-
-The first character after the `$` is the custom interpolation character, which
-can be any of the following symbols: `~!@#$%^&*+=\?`. If none of these
-characters is used, the default interpolation character is `$`. Since this is
-the default, you can disable interpolation altogether by using `$` here (i.e. a
-double `$$`).
-
-The next thing in a customizable string is the character used to delimit the
-string. The string delimiter can be any of the following symbols: `` "'`|/;([{< ``
-If the string delimiter is one of `([{<`, then the string will continue until a
-matching `)]}>` is found, not terminating unless the delimiters are balanced
-(i.e. nested pairs of delimiters are considered part of the string).
-
-Here are some examples:
-
-```
-$"Equivalent to a normal string with dollar interps: $(1 + 2)"
-$@"The same, but the AT symbol interpolates: @(1 + 2)"
-$$"No interpolation here, $ is just a literal character"
-$|This string is pipe-delimited, so it can have "quotes" and 'single quotes' and interpolates with dollar sign: $(1+2)|
-$(This string is parens-delimited, so you can have (nested) parens without ending the string)
-$=[This string is square-bracket delimited [which can be nested] and uses equals for interps: =(1 + 2)]
-$@/look ma, regex literals!/
-```
-
-When strings are delimited by matching pairs (`()`, `[]`, `{}`, or `<>`), they
-can only be closed by a matched closing character at the same indentation
-level, ignoring nested pairs:
-
-```
-$$(Inside parens, you can have (nested ()) parens no problem)
-$$"But only (), [], {}, and <> are matching pairs, you can't have nested quotes"
-$$(
- When indented, an unmatched ) won't close the string
- An unmatched ( won't mess things up either
- Only matching pairs on the same indentation level are counted:
-)
-$$(Multi-line string with nested (parens) and
-.. line continuation)
-```
-
-As a special case, when you use the same character for interpolation and string
-delimiting, no interpolations are allowed:
-
-```
-plain := $""This string has {no interpolations}!"
-```
-
-**Note:** Normal doubly quoted strings with no dollar sign (e.g. `"foo"`) are a
-shorthand for `${}"foo"`. Singly quoted strings with no dollar sign (e.g.
-`'foo'`) are shorthand for `$''foo'`.
-
-## Operations
-
-### Concatenation
-
-Concatenation in the typical case is an O(1) operation: `"{x}{y}"` or `x ++ y`.
-
-Because string concatenation is typically an O(1) operation, there is no need
-for a separate string builder class in the language and no need to use an array
-of string fragments.
-
-### String Length
-
-String length is an ambiguous term in the context of UTF-8 strings. There are
-several possible meanings, so each of these meanings is split into a separate
-method:
-
-- Number of grapheme clusters: `string:num_graphemes()`
-- Size in bytes: `string:num_bytes()`
-- Number of unicode codepoints: `string:num_codepoints()` (you probably want to
- use graphemes, not codepoints in most applications)
-
-Since the typical user expectation is that string length refers to "letters,"
-the `#` length operator returns the number of grapheme clusters, which is the
-closest unicode equivalent to "letters."
-
-### Iteration
-
-Iteration is *not* supported for strings because of the ambiguity between
-bytes, codepoints, and graphemes. It is instead recommended that you explicitly
-iterate over bytes, codepoints, graphemes, words, lines, etc:
-
-### Subcomponents
-
-- `string:bytes()` returns an array of `Int8` bytes
-- `string:codepoints()` returns an array of `Int32` bytes
-- `string:graphemes()` returns an array of grapheme cluster strings
-- `string:words()` returns an array of word strings
-- `string:lines()` returns an array of line strings
-- `string:split(",", empty=no)` returns an array of strings split by the given delimiter
-
-### Equality, Comparison, and Hashing
-
-All text is compared and hashed using unicode normalization. Unicode provides
-several different ways to represent the same text. For example, the single
-codepoint `U+E9` (latin small e with accent) is rendered the same as the two
-code points `U+65 U+301` (latin small e, acute combining accent) and has an
-equivalent linguistic meaning. These are simply different ways to represent the
-same "letter." In order to make it easy to write correct code that takes this
-into account, Tomo uses unicode normalization for all string comparisons and
-hashing. Normalization does the equivalent of converting text to a canonical
-form before performing comparisons or hashing. This means that if a table is
-created that has text with the codepoint `U+E9` as a key, then a lookup with
-the same text but with `U+65 U+301` instead of `U+E9` will still succeed in
-finding the value because the two strings are equivalent under normalization.
-
-### Capitalization
-
-- `x:capitalized()`
-- `x:titlecased()`
-- `x:uppercased()`
-- `x:lowercased()`
-
-### Patterns
-
-- `string:has("target", at=Where.Anywhere|Where.Start|Where.End)->Bool` Check whether a pattern can be found
-- `string:without("target", at=Where.Anywhere|Where.Start|Where.End)->Text`
-- `string:trimmed("chars...", at=Where.Anywhere|Where.Start|Where.End)->Text`
-- `string:find("target")->enum(Failure, Success(index:Int32))`
-- `string:replace("target", "replacement", limit=Int.max)->Text` Returns a copy of the string with replacements
-- `string:split("split")->[Text]`
-- `string:join(["one", "two"])->Text`