>Bart Lateur wrote:
>>On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:36:10 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>>>No. People should learn intrinsic mechanisms with which they can
>>>construct infinitely many beautiful and powerful effects. This empowers
>>>them. Making them learn yet-another-function-call merely hamstrings
>>>them with a dead fish; tomorrow, they shall starve.
>>
>>Then let's drop chop(). This function is even far more easily
>>implemented than trim(), thwack(), or whatever you choose to call it.
>For that matter, let's drop chomp(), eh? That's merely a dead-fish
>way to do s|$/$||, with some extra magic thrown in for when $/ is null.
Heaven forbid that there should ever be more than one way to do something
in Perl.
--tom
