* Ovid <publiustemp-perl6langua...@yahoo.com> [2009-01-12 21:20]: > Since that's RTL (Right To Left) text, should ltrim remove the > leading or trailing whitespace? > > I like Jonathan's trim_start and trim_end.
Let me ask you first: does a string that runs Right-to-Left start at the left and end at the right or start at the right and end at the left? Now to answer your question, *I* know where the *left* side is in a string that runs from right to left: it’s at the *left*, same as if the string ran from the left to the right, because left is at the *left*. :-) I mean, if the the meaning of “left” was inverted by “right-to-left”, in which it is contained, then what does the latter even mean? (OK, we’re on a Perl 6 list so I guess the answer is it’s a juction… :-) ) Clearly one of us has an inversed sense of which pair of terms is ambiguous, and I don’t think it’s me… ;-) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
