On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Ovid <publiustemp-perl6langua...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> ----- Original Message ---- > > > > > > I could optionally make the following work: > > > > > > > > $string.trim(:leading<0>); > > > > $string.trim(:trailing<0>); > > Alternatively, those could be ltrim() and rtrim(). If you need to > dynamically determine what you're going to trim, you'd couldn't just set > variables to do it, though. You'd have to figure out which methods to call. > Or all could be allowed and $string.trim(:leading<0>) could all > $string.rtrim internally. > If I were going to have ltrim() and rtrim(), I'd implement them in terms of trim() rather than the other way around. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff perlpi...@gmail.com