Re: Proposal: chop() dropped

[Nathan Wiger]

Tom Christiansen wrote:
> 
> >I'll second that motion.  We already have lots of ways of removing the
> >last character of a string if that's what we really need.
> 
> But they're slow and hard to read.

I think the word "drop" should be clarified as "dropped from the core
binary".

In a very cool email, Bryan Warnock talked about half a dozen different
chop-like functions that are useful but not in core:

http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/msg01522.html

I think chop, champ, chip, and friends should be available via the

   use String::Chop;

or related module.

-Nate