Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:36:10 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>>No. People should learn intrinsic mechanisms with which they can
>>construct infinitely many beautiful and powerful effects. This empowers
>>them. Making them learn yet-another-function-call merely hamstrings
>>them with a dead fish; tomorrow, they shall starve.
>
>Then let's drop chop(). This function is even far more easily
>implemented than trim(), thwack(), or whatever you choose to call it.
For that matter, let's drop chomp(), eh? That's merely a dead-fish
way to do s|$/$||, with some extra magic thrown in for when $/ is null.
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