Standard library

[HallM]

May need a sort of standard library for certain things, especially in dealing with strings. I am not certain if Math (cos, sin, pi, etc) or array/collection manipulation would be necessary. I feel these may cross the line of what a view engine should do whereas substring is something a view engine may need to do. Displaying a portion of a string can be display logic. Manipulating data should be business logic.

Strings

• string concatenation
• substring
• length
• toUpperCase
• toLowerCase
• matches
• path to width and justify left/right/center
• trim left/right/both
• startswith
• endswith

Array

• length
• slice
• join

Not certain if these have a strong use case, especially with how the display/block logic works. They can't function at this time. To make blocks more like functions would shift more to general purpose programming language vs a template-focused language.

• array reduce
• array map
• array filter
• every (if all things in the array pass)
• some (if one thing in the array passes)

Not sure if these string methods have a strong use case:

• split
• char at