Good point, brother John

Uhm... maybe, instead of wiping away some functions, they could be made "optional" and imported via a use, like

use Perl5 'chop' ;

I wonder what Perl6 people thinks about that...

Ciao!
--bronto

UPDATE I'm just using chop right now after years! I have a string that matches /^\d+[MG]$/i, a disk quota given in Megs or Gigs, and I have to convert it in Kbytes:

  if (defined $quota) {
    my $factor = chop $quota ;
    my $softquota = $quota*$QuotaConversionFactor{uc($factor)} ;
    ...

[download]

Don't let it go away, please... :-(

--
# Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->made($love) ;
}

In reply to use Perl5 'chop' ; [Re: a farewell to chop] by bronto
in thread a farewell to chop by John M. Dlugosz

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