Re: Proposal: chop() dropped

[Tom Christiansen]

>chomp() is best used for chop()s main raison d'etre, removing $/
>from a string.  I say we drop chop().

So code that says

    chop($k,$v)

will need to say

    for ($k,$v) { s/.\z//s } 

or else something like:

    for ($k, $v) { substr($_, length() - 1) = '' }

I'm not sure I find either of those more legible.  And they certainly
won't be faster.  chop() has been around since perl1, too.

Then again, yes, people do tend to use it when they oughtn't.  Hm...

---tom