Re: Proposal: chop() dropped

[Tom Christiansen]

>I'm not arguing in favor of the tr/// hack specifically, but 
>gosh, wouldn't it be nice if there were a thwack() builtin that
>stripped leading and trailing spaces? 

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.

--tom