Re: RFC 361 (v1) Simplifying split()

[Tom Christiansen]

>Sean M. Burke wrote:
>> 
>> The current behavior makes trailing empty fields non-existent, and that's a
>> bizarre and nonintuitive thing to have be a default;

>Only to some people; and besides, it's well documented.

Well, Sean is right in that it is very bizarre to many people.
I know that when I teach it, that people are quite surprised
by it.  And I mean this in the classical sense of the word.

''tom