Re: RFC 361 (v1) Simplifying split()

[Bryan C . Warnock]

On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> If you want to remove trailing fields, under Perl 6 you should have to
> do it explicitly:
> 
>    Perl 5:   @x = split /:/, $bar;
>   be synonymous with
>    Perl 6:   @x = split ':', $bar;
>              while(@x and !length $x[-1]) { pop @x }

Which, to me, is a good reason to keep the current behavior.

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Bryan C. Warnock
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