Hi, On 27 Mai, 15:35, Michael Gardner <gardne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 27, 2010, at 2:45 AM, Stefan Kamphausen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > On May 26, 11:00 pm, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> The people have spoken! The trims have it! > > > sorry, I'm a little late. However, to me it is not clear what the > > trim functions shall do. If they become a replacement for chomp they > > are clearly misnamed. In many applications and languages (like Excel, > > several SQL variants, oh, and Java, ...) "trim" means stripping of > > whitespace characters, including but not limited to \n and \r. In > > contrast to that chomp stands for the removal of the system-specific > > linebreak. > > I disagree that "trim" is a misnomer for this function. It may be used as > shorthand for "trim whitespace" in some programming languages, but it's not > universal even within CS, and it's not what "trim" by itself means in > English. And Clojure has already shown that it is willing to break with > established terminology in order to Get Things Right.
just a few links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_%28programming%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_functions_%28programming%29#trim http://java.sun.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#trim%28%29 http://php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php According to the first link in that list, a lot of languages have this understanding of "trimming" a string. However, that doesn't have to be a valid argument. Oh, and, Clojure: (.trim " Trim me ") (which is really just Java, of course, but I couldn't withstand) :-) Cheers, Stefan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
