On 7 Aug 2000 16:06:44 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>This RFC contains two proposed changes. First, as it is common to want to
>removed newlines upon reading a file,
>
> while (chomp(<FILEHANDLE>)) {
> . . .
> }
>
>should become the equivalent of
>
> while (<FILEHANDLE>) {
> chomp;
> . . .
> }
...
>C<chomp()> called in a scalar context would leave its argument variable
>untouched and instead return a C<chomp()>ed version of that variable's
>contents.
These two contradict each other. If the latter is realized, the while
loop of the former ought to be exited at the first empty line, or where
it contains just a zero (and an optional newline).
--
Bart.
