stdlib/strings: Moved append to Buffer, now works on all known variants of Text.

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

diff --git a/lib/standard/string.nit b/lib/standard/string.nit
index f348b75..3b8f02e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/standard/string.nit
+++ b/lib/standard/string.nit
@@ -946,8 +946,8 @@ abstract class Buffer
        # Enlarges the subsequent array containing the chars of self
        fun enlarge(cap: Int) is abstract
 
-       # Adds the content of string `s` at the end of self
-       fun append(s: String) is abstract
+       # Adds the content of text `s` at the end of self
+       fun append(s: Text) is abstract
 
 end
 
@@ -1036,7 +1036,17 @@ class FlatBuffer
        do
                var sl = s.length
                if capacity < length + sl then enlarge(length + sl)
-               s.items.copy_to(items, sl, s.index_from, length)
+               if s isa String then
+                       s.items.copy_to(items, sl, s.index_from, length)
+               else if s isa FlatBuffer then
+                       s.items.copy_to(items, sl, 0, length)
+               else
+                       var curr_pos = self.length
+                       for i in s.chars do
+                               items[curr_pos] = i
+                               curr_pos += 1
+                       end
+               end
                length += sl
        end