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On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, at 6:40 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: > I know I wasn't following this issue in detail but I was always assuming that a > trim() would NOT modify its argument and would return the trimmed value. This > is what everyone would reasonably expect. This is the only version that is > actually useful.. This is a weird position to take in the face of people (including me and several Perl programmers not on this list whom I asked) expecting modify-in-place and thinking it would be useful. I'm not even trying to tell you to agree. I'm just saying "no one would expect that or find it useful" is … well, a weird claim. (Do you think I would be suggesting we adopt some behavior that I found surprising and useless?) -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next