[Monodevelop-devel] Text Editor API GetCharAt

[Mike Krüger]

Hi

I'm currently reviewing the text editor API. We've a method called:

public char GetCharAt (int < span class="n" style="box-sizing: 
border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">offset)


And atm I think about replacing it with :

public  char  this[int  offset]  

Maybe even add a setter to that - then the editor may feel a bit more 
like a string from a certain PoV.
The question is: Is that a good or bad choice - how are you feeling 
about it ?

The text editor has 3 layers: Text, Document and Editor - each layer 
adds something on top of the text. The GetCharAt is a functionality from 
the Text. On this level there is just text. I think the indexer makes 
sense there. But how about the upper layers? At Document level the 
editor becomes a collection of lines as well.

I would love to hear some opinions. (About the speed: In this is a very 
lightweight operation - in our current Implementation it's done in O(1) 
in the worst case I can imagine that it becomes an O(log N) one).

Regards
Mike


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