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On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 7:24 PM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 10:09:08 -0800 > Scott Baker <scott@perturb.org> wrote: > > > Team: > > > > I lack the time and expertise to complete the PR I started > > <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/17999> to add `trim()` to core. > > I'm hoping someone with more experience would be interested in taking > > over and complete the PR for me. It's largely complete already. > > > > LeoNerd wrote the C implementation and I wrote the docs and the tests. > > The PR needs some polish and rebasing and then it will be ready to > > land. If you're familiar with the Perl build process this should be a > > simple task for you. > > > > If you're interested in adopting this PR please reach out to me and > > we'll figure out the next steps. > > To be honest it's not even that much effort. I'm happy to make the PR > *technically* work. > > All we need here is someone to "socially" sponsor the idea - someone to > argue the case that "I believe this feature should be implemented". > Such a sponsor doesn't have to touch any of the C (or Perl or any other > code) of the PR itself. They just have to argue with the nay-sayers. > > -- > Paul "LeoNerd" Evans > > leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS > http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/ > Is it sufficient to say that I'm waiting for 20 years for such basic things to be in core? ;-)Thread Previous | Thread Next