Michael Mathews wrote:
>
> Like "join" the order of arguments would have to be "chomp($thing_to_remove,
> @array)" but this spoils the default behavior of $thing_to_remove being
> optional...
>
> unless you think we should require arrays to be passed by reference.
Well, if we were really talking about arrays, we could do this already,
with a prototype such as chomp(\@;$), which would do the right thing
for chomp(@array,$to_remove). But unfortunately we're not talking
about arrays, we're talking about LISTS.
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John Porter
