Re: [PATCH] Add .trim method

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Ovid
<[email protected]>wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----
>
> > From: jason switzer <[email protected]>
>
> > If we wanted language dependent version, use :leading, :trailing, and
> :both.
> > That will require each implementation properly handle the language
> > variations.
>
> I think :start and :end are my favorites.  Huffman++ (maybe :begin and :end
> for consistency?).


My best advise is to keep it consistant. .chomp makes references to chomping
from the end, not the trailing. .substr makes reference to start. I think
that's better to just find terminology that has already been agreed upon and
keep abusing it.