Re: RFC 195 (v1) Retire chop().

[Richard Proctor]

On Fri 08 Sep, Eric Roode wrote:
> Does anyone EVER use chomp() except shortly after reading a line
> of input from a stream?  No?
> 

Yes

> Perhaps $/ and $\ should become per-filehandle variables, and 
> there should be some way to set autochomp-on-read per filehandle,
> and auto-newline-on-output per filehandle.

I can see a small benefit for autochomp-on-read but none whatsoever
for auto-newline-on-output (even if you could decide when to send it).

Richard
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