It would be great to come up with some kind of heuristic and/or consistent
philosophy on what belongs in the standard library, to guide these discussions.
Some kind of rubric could make these kinds of conversations easier or even
prevent them entirely. For me, the main guiding principles are whe
This seems reasonably straight forward to implement in your own code base:
```
def truncate(string, length, padding \\ ".") do
string
|> String.slice(0, length)
|> String.pad_trailing(String.length(string), padding)
end
```
Not seeing a strong need to include it in the standard library. Jus
