On 24 January 2014 21:49, Regan Heath <regan@netmail.co.nz> wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:21:12 -0000, Jacob Carlborg <doob@me.com> wrote:

I would expect "contains" to take a element and check if it exists in the range.

Except in the case of string, where we also want an overload taking more than a single element aka a substring.

A great example of when the string function should not be conflated with the general function.