* Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> [2009-01-12 20:55]: > Also `:!start` to imply `:end` unless `:!end` (which in turn > implies `:start` unless `:!end`)?
Ugh, forget this, I was having a blank moment. Actually that makes me wonder now whether it’s actually a good idea at all to make the function parametrisable at all. Even `.ltrim.rtrim` is shorter and easier than `.trim(:start,:end)`! Plus if there are separate `.ltrim` and `.rtrim` functions it would be better to implement `.trim` by calling them rather than vice versa, so it wouldn’t even be less efficient two make two calls rather than a parametrised one. And if anyone really needs to be able to decide the trimming based on flags, they can do that themselves with `.ltrim`/ `.rtrim` with rather little code anyway. So I question the usefulness of parametrisation here. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
