[m-dev.] Contribution: Pretty Printing Library

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Apr-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> I think split_string/2 is sufficiently useful that it should go
> into the library.  Perhaps it would be better to generalise it
> to accept, e.g. split_string(String, char__is_whitespace)?

Both of those suggestions sound good to me.

The obvious place for it to go is in the string module,
but the name `split_string' is probably not a good choice,
since it would lead to confusion with the existing
`string__split' predicate.  Perhaps `string__words'
would be a better name.

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