On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 12:01, Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 11:28 AM demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I spent a lot of time working on routines like trim and friends for > generating Bookings website. In place modification can be a *huge* win. > > > > Shouldn't it be possible for perl to optimize > > $string = trim($string); > > internally to operate in place? This would offer the benefits of in > place operation, with the interface most people seem to prefer. > I have no problem with that. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next