On Aug 14, 2015 8:46 AM, "Brandon Allbery" <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: ... >> now). Note that the same behavior applies to the 'substr' string >> method so that begs the question of why is the 'substr-rw' method >> justified and 'trim-rw' not? It seems at first glance that the >> 'substr-rw' method should be removed. ... > IIRC substr-rw is a performance hack because substr was being slowed > in all cases in order to accommodate the rw use case. trim doesn't > have the same issue.
Thanks for the enlightenment, Brandon. -Tom
