lib/standard/text: Intro bytelen in abstract_text

Signed-off-by: Lucas Bajolet <r4pass@hotmail.com>

diff --git a/lib/standard/text/abstract_text.nit b/lib/standard/text/abstract_text.nit
index 1571a9d..46d036b 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/standard/text/abstract_text.nit
+++ b/lib/standard/text/abstract_text.nit
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ abstract class Text
        #     assert "".length == 0
        fun length: Int is abstract
 
+       # Number of bytes in `self`
+       #
+       # TODO: Implement correctly once UTF-8 is supported
+       fun bytelen: Int do return length
+
        # Create a substring.
        #
        #     assert "abcd".substring(1, 2)      ==  "bc"