This commit makes the user-facing StdLibExtras templates and utilities
arguably more nice-looking by removing the need to reach into the
wrapper structs generated by them to get the value/type needed.
The C++ standard library had to invent `_v` and `_t` variants (likely
because of backwards compat), but we don't need to cater to any codebase
except our own, so might as well have good things for free. :^)
This is a pretty naive implementation that works well. The precision
parameter is interpreted as "maximum precision" instead of "minimum
precision", which in my opinion is the most useful interpretation.
(...and ASSERT_NOT_REACHED => VERIFY_NOT_REACHED)
Since all of these checks are done in release builds as well,
let's rename them to VERIFY to prevent confusion, as everyone is
used to assertions being compiled out in release.
We can introduce a new ASSERT macro that is specifically for debug
checks, but I'm doing this wholesale conversion first since we've
accumulated thousands of these already, and it's not immediately
obvious which ones are suitable for ASSERT.
I ran into this exact but at least twenty times in Serenity alone. The
C++ Standard dictates that 'unsigned long' and 'unsigned long long' are
distinct types even though on most platforms they are usually both 64
bit integers.
Also it wasn't possible to evaluate IsIntegral<T> for types that were
not integers since it used MakeUnsigned<T> internally.
This commit also removes a few functions like raw_out and vwarn. If we
want to write raw output, we can do this as follows:
out("{}", "Hello, World!");
The vout stuff isn't really public API anyways, so no need for another
vwarn.
String literals are just pointers to a constant character. It should be
possible to format them as such. (The default is to print them as
strings still.)
When we write the format specifier '{:#08x}' we are asking for eight
significant digits, zero padding and the prefix '0x'.
However, previously we got only six significant digits because the
prefix counted towards the width. (The number '8' here is the total
width and not the number of significant digits.)
Both fmtlib and printf shared this behaviour. However, I am introducing
a special case here because when we do zero padding we really only care
about the digits and not the width.
Notice that zero padding is a special case anyways, because zero padding
goes after the prefix as opposed to any other padding which goes before
it.
It's now save to pass a signed integer as parameter and then use it as
replacement field (previously, this would just cast it to size_t which
would be bad.)
With this commit, <AK/Format.h> has a more supportive role and isn't
used directly.
Essentially, there now is a public 'vformat' function ('v' for vector)
which takes already type erased parameters. The name is choosen to
indicate that this function behaves similar to C-style functions taking
a va_list equivalent.
The interface for frontend users are now 'String::formatted' and
'StringBuilder::appendff'.
Two things I hate about C++:
1. 'int', 'signed int' and 'unsigned int' are two distinct types while
'char, 'signed char' and 'unsigned char' are *three* distinct types.
This is because 'signed int' is an alias for 'int' but 'signed char'
can't be an alias for 'char' because on some weird systems 'char' is
unsigned.
One might think why not do it the other way around, make 'int' an
alias for 'signed int' and 'char' an alias for whatever that is on
the platform, or make 'char' signed on all platforms. But who am I
to ask?
2. 'unsigned long' and 'unsigned long long' are always different types,
even if both are 64 bit numbers.
This commit fixes a few bugs that coming from this.
See Also: 1b3169f405.
