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On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 01:08:04 +0100, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > 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 atrim() would NOT modify its argument and would return the trimmed value. Thisis what everyone would reasonably expect. This is the only version that isactually 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?) I think this comes down to the same issue as with the "new defaults" thing. Originally no-strict perl was intended by Larry to be easier and approachable for newbies and literally called "baby perl". Nowadays there's a lot of people claiming we must enforce strict as hard as we can because it's best for newbies. I suspect people with different expectations of trim and thoughts about chomp come more often than not from different generations of learning. -- With regards, Christian WaldeThread Previous | Thread Next