Re: Proposal: chop() dropped

[Bart Lateur]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:36:10 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:

>>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.

Then let's drop chop(). This function is even far more easily
implemented than trim(), thwack(), or whatever you choose to call it.

Eh... full circle?

-- 
        Bart.