Re: RFC 58 (v1) C changes.

[John Porter]

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.

-- 
John Porter