ludic/docs/language/text/text-length.md
Orkuncakilkaya a38195128f feat(stdlib): namespaced standard library (issue #2)
Implement the bulk of the namespaced-stdlib proposal (workshopsoft/ludic#2):
156 namespace methods across Math, Text, List, Ease, Collide, World, Net,
Sys, Save, Mem, extended Screen, Color functions, extended Random, and Time.
All deterministic fixed-point; self-hosting (C-free bootstrap fixpoint holds).

Compiler (selfhost/):
- Math.*: sqrt/sin/cos/tan/atan2/asin/acos (fixed-point runtime prelude —
  bit-by-bit isqrt, 256-entry interpolated sine table, Ross atan2), plus
  hypot/dist/dist2/deg_to_rad/rad_to_deg/posmod/wrap/ping_pong/snapped/
  move_toward/smoothstep/lerp/remap/sign/floor/ceil/round.
- Text.* (complete): upper/lower/trim/repeat/pad, split/join/replace,
  and the libc-backed queries.
- List.* (complete): insert/remove_at/remove/sort plus the earlier ops.
- Ease.* (in/out/in_out/back/bounce) and Collide.* (rects/point_rect/
  circles/rect_circle).
- Phase 3: World/Net/Sys/Save namespaced over the bare builtins (byte-
  identical IR) and Mem.* (bytes/words/copy/fill/peek/poke).
- Screen.* extended (line/circle/fill_circle/triangle/fill_triangle via new
  runtime primitives; sprite/sprite_scaled aliases), Color.* functions,
  Random.* (value/int/sign), Time.* (frame/delta/elapsed/now — new
  game-loop frame counter).
- Fix a lexer bug: fixed-point literals with >4 fractional digits overflowed.

Docs & tooling:
- 129 new per-symbol doc pages; gen.py made data-driven (namespaces
  discovered from the docs, no hardcoded list); new check-impl.py enforces
  that every implemented namespace method / keyword / type / phase has a
  doc page, wired into `x test-tools`. Document the previously-undocumented
  keywords (break/continue/where/entry/new/public + and/or/not tokens).
- LSP: namespaced signature help (ns_method_sig) covering every namespace.

Tests: 12 new self-host/regression tests + a golden render for the drawing
primitives. All suites green (selfhost 21, regression 45, tools 29).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 00:26:19 +03:00

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id name category kind tokens sig tip order ns member
text-length Text.length text namespace-method Text.length Text.length(s) -> int The number of bytes in a string. 0 Text length

Returns how many bytes are in s, not counting the terminating zero. It is the same count as the bare len(s), exposed under the Text namespace for discoverability. Use it to size a HUD field, walk a string by index, or check for emptiness with Text.length(s) == 0.

Parameters:

  • s — the string to measure
program NameWidth {
  var label: str = "player one"

  handler Draw phase Render {
    let width = Text.length(label) * 6   # 6 px per glyph
  }
}