Added old Char#digit? and Char#alpha? with a deprecation warning, to ease migration. Updated Changelog.

Ary Borenszweig · Ary Borenszweig · commit de680fbc168f · 2016-11-22T05:58:04.000-03:00
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
 * **(breaking change)** Removed `ifdef` from the language
 * **(breaking change)** Removed `PointerIO`
 * **(breaking change)** The `body` property of `HTTP::Request` is now an `IO?` (previously it was `String`). Use `request.body.try(&.gets_to_end)`  if you need the entire body as a String.
+* **(breaking change)** `Char#digit?` was split into `Char#ascii_number?` and `Char#number?`. The old name is still available and will produce a compile-time warning, but will be removed immediately after 0.20.0.
+* **(breaking change)** `Char#alpha?` was split into `Char#ascii_letter?` and `Char#letter?`. The old name is still available and will produce a compile-time warning, but will be removed immediately after 0.20.0.
 * **(breaking change)** The `Iterable` module is now generic
+* Many `String` and `Char` methods are now unicode-aware, for example `String#downcase`, `String#upcase`, `Char#downcase`, `Char#upcase`, `Char#whitespace?`, etc.
 * Added support for HTTP client and server streaming.
 * Added support for ARM (thanks @ysbaddaden)
 * Added support for AArch64 (thanks @ysbaddaden)
diff --git a/src/char.cr b/src/char.cr
@@ -124,6 +124,12 @@ struct Char
     ord < 128
   end
 
+  # DEPRECATED: use `#ascii_number?` or `#number?`. This method will be removed after 0.20.0.
+  def digit?(base : Int = 10)
+    {{ puts "Warning: `Char#digit?` is deprecated and will be removed after 0.20.0, use `Char#ascii_number?` or `Char#number?` instead".id }}
+    ascii_number?(base)
+  end
+
   # Returns `true` if this char is an ASCII number in specified base.
   #
   # Base can be from 0 to 36 with digits from '0' to '9' and 'a' to 'z' or 'A' to 'Z'.
@@ -195,6 +201,12 @@ struct Char
     ascii? ? ascii_uppercase? : Unicode.uppercase?(self)
   end
 
+  # DEPRECATED: use `#ascii_letter?` or `#letter?`. This method will be removed after 0.20.0.
+  def alpha?
+    {{ puts "Warning: `Char#alpha?` is deprecated and will be removed after 0.20.0, use `Char#ascii_letter?` or `Char#letter?` instead".id }}
+    ascii_letter?
+  end
+
   # Returns `true` if this char is an ASCII letter ('a' to 'z', 'A' to 'Z').
   #
   # ```
