Make String.fromCharCodes take start/end.

sdk/lib/core/string.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 part of dart.core;
 
 /**
  * A sequence of characters.
  *
  * A string can be either single or multiline. Single line strings are
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    * 16-bit, it is copied verbatim:
    *
    *     new String.fromCharCodes([68]); // 'D'
    *
    * If a char-code value is greater than 16-bits, it is decomposed into a
    * surrogate pair:
    *
    *     var clef = new String.fromCharCodes([0x1D11E]);
    *     clef.codeUnitAt(0); // 0xD834
    *     clef.codeUnitAt(1); // 0xDD1E
+   *
+   * If [start] is provided, the first `start` elements of `charCodes` are
+   * skipped. If `charCodes` has fewer than `start` elements in all, the
+   * result is an empty string. The `start` value must be non-negative.
+   *
+   * If [end] is provided, any elements of `charCodes` after the `end`'th are
+   * ignored. If `charCodes` has fewer than `end` elements, the `end` parameter
+   * has no effect.
    */
-  external factory String.fromCharCodes(Iterable<int> charCodes);
+  external factory String.fromCharCodes(Iterable<int> charCodes,
+                                        [int start = 0, int end]);

[srdjan, 2014/09/17 15:31:59]

I assume the library team has agreed to this API change.

 
   /**
    * Allocates a new String for the specified [charCode].
    *
    * If the [charCode] can be represented by a single UTF-16 code unit, the new
    * string contains a single code unit. Otherwise, the [length] is 2 and
    * the code units form a surrogate pair. See documentation for
    * [fromCharCodes].
    *
    * Creating a String with half of a surrogate pair is allowed.
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         _position = position - 1;
         _currentCodePoint = _combineSurrogatePair(prevCodeUnit, codeUnit);
         return true;
       }
     }
     _position = position;
     _currentCodePoint = codeUnit;
     return true;
   }
 }