----- Original Message ---- > From: Geoffrey Broadwell <ge...@broadwell.org>
> When I saw your proposed syntax above, instead of reading "don't trim > leading/trailing whitespace", I read "change the definition of > 'whitespace' to 'codepoint 0' for leading/trailing". > > That of course raises the question of how one *would* properly override > trim's concept of whitespace .... Change your locale to one with a different concept of whitespace (are there any?) Otherwise, would this be trying to stuff too much into one function? Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
