Re: [PATCH] Add .trim method

[email protected] ("Carl Mäsak") Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:27:05 +0100

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language,perl.perl6.internals
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Jonathan (>), Ovid (>>), Larry (>>>):
>>> Can't say I really like the negated options though.  They smell funny.
>>
>> Agreed, but ltrim and rtrim will disappoint Israelis and dyslexics alike.
>>  Suggestions welcome as I can't think of anything better.
>
> The .Net framework calls 'em TrimStart and TrimEnd (and has a Trim that does
> both). So maybe trim_start and trim_end if we wanted to take that lead...

How about .trim(:start) and .trim(:end)?

// Carl