#2 sounds good, but before I vote to change the functionality, could you remind me
what the proposed functionality actually is? :-) This has been a sudden, large
thread and I haven't had time to dig back and read all the arguments...
The point of all these methods is (a) convenience and (b) n
Please keep this thread focussed on deprecation or not.
For the 2.0 release, the chomp() methods have already changed functionality
to be closer to Perl. Other methods have had null handling changed to be
silent rather than NPE.
Proposals are to change isEmpty() and isNotEmpty() functionality. Ch