[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBSEAM-2471) add s:concat and s:range functions

add s:concat and s:range functions ---------------------------------- Key: JBSEAM-2471 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-2471 Project: Seam Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Core Affects Versions: 2.0.1.CR1 Reporter: Dan Allen Assignee: Dan Allen Priority: Minor Fix For: The future Attachments: JBSEAM-2471-v1.txt Original Estimate: 30 minutes Remaining Estimate: 30 minutes My #1 EL pet peeve is that there is no way to concatenate a string. This is like serious basic stuff and it is perfectly reasonable to want to perform this task in EL. I realize I could invent my own solution (and I have), but we want to sweep those common cases under the rug like what was done with the magic collection functions (size, isEmpty, etc). How about s:concat('one', 'two')? I am going to squeeze one more in here. I can't tell you the number of times I have needed to quickly create an iteration loop in the UI over a range of numbers, only to realize that there isn't an easy way aside from creating a component. Can we add an s:range() function that creates a collection on the fly? s:range(1, 5) This is somewhat of a precedence since the only two functions in s: right now are security related.