[perl #1807] chomp() can be confusing

[Michael G Schwern via RT]

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thu Nov 18 23:18:09 1999]:
> 
> Is there any possibility of having chomp() be modified to recognize
\n, \r,
> and \r\n as line-endings to chomp?

Do you mean that chomp(), rather than being equivalent to:

    s{$/\z}{};

should be:

    s{(\r|\n|\r\n)\z}{};

?