On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote: > I'd like not to have to type `.trim(:start)` when I could just do > `.ltrim` though.
As long as we gloss .ltrim as "leading" trim rather than "left" trim. Then the other end could be .ttrim for "trailing"? We really ought to avoid using "left" and "right" to refer to the beginning and end of text strings. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>