Re: RFC 58 (v1) C changes.

[Dan Sugalski]

At 02:29 PM 8/8/00 -0400, Michael Mathews wrote:
>Dan Sugalski said:
> > Which brings up the questions:
> >
> > * What about scalars that didn't come from filehandles?
> > * Should the chomp function use the filehandle's current separator, or the
> > one in effect when it was read?
> > * Do we even want to allow after-the-fact chomps, or do it automagically
>at
> > read time?
>
>YES, of course!

That last was an "A or B" sort of question. Yes is rather ambiguous. :)

> > * Is it worth the extra space per scalar to store the record separator (or
> > a pointer to the filehandle holding the record separator)?
> >
>
>What about a
>     chomp($foo, '\r\n');
>     # or
>     chomp(<FH>, '\r\n');
>syntax.

Looks an awful lot like:

   s/\r\n//;

to me...


                                        Dan

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