On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:28:26AM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> =head1 TITLE
>
> Retire chop().
>
> =head1 VERSION
>
> Maintainer: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 5 Sep 2000
> Last Modified: 15 Sep 2000
> Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Number: 195
> Version: 2
> Status: Frozen
As I mailed to Nathan Torkington several days ago (without getting
a reply), many people use chop() a lot and his perl526 substitute
"s/.\z//s;" will not work because it returns the number of
chars changed, not the char itself like chop() does (as opposed to
chomp()).
> =head1 IMPLEMENTATION
>
> The perl526 translator can simply use
>
> s/.\z//s;
>
> for a chop() action. If there were a chop() in a standard library
> then the conversion would simply be a matter of putting:
-Sven
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