From: Lucas Bajolet <r4pass@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 19:52:44 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: lib/standard/text: Intro bytelen in abstract_text
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lib/standard/text: Intro bytelen in abstract_text

Signed-off-by: Lucas Bajolet <r4pass@hotmail.com>
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diff --git a/lib/standard/text/abstract_text.nit b/lib/standard/text/abstract_text.nit
index 1571a9d..46d036b 100644
--- 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"