Let collections.Reverse work on strings

[McShelby]

It is currently hard to reverse a string. This forum thread discuses some workarounds but the best would be to let collections.Reverse do the job.

As @jmooring mentioned in the thread, this could probably lead to invalid unicode strings in case of non-ascii characters (this depends on how strings are represented in go and which set of functions will be used to reverse the string - I am not experienced in go).

So as a limitation it may only result in a reversed binary buffer instead of a usable reversed string.

[jmooring]

If I were looking in our documentation for a template function that reverses a string, I would look for something in the strings namespace.

The string "Hello 👋🏿" will be difficult to properly reverse.

[bep]

The string "Hello 👋🏿" will be difficult to properly reverse.

Well, it's not ... impossible. My question is how useful it is. I have not read the discussion linked above; what is the use case and is it a common use case?

[jmooring]

how useful it is

This is the first request I've seen.

[McShelby]

It was a solution (or better: workaround) for a different problem. I would say it's quite unusual and of limited use to the public.

But speaking in general, it was quite surprising to me, that there isn't such a function.