Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Tom Christiansen]

>How often does the return value from chomp or chop get used?  The confusion
>would cleared up considerably, I think, if they didn't return a value.

Seldom, I think--albeit sufficiently often that you might want the
perl526 translator to have any such found be converted to some kind
of lchop/lchomp simply for compatibility.  

Come to think of it, non-lvaluing chomp doesn't solve the most common usage
snafuddle:

    while (chomp(<ARGV>) { }

--tom