From: Dennis Decker Jensen <dennisdecker@...>
Date: 2001-04-18T06:25:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13776] SV:  Re: RCR: trivial but useful add-ons

Michael Neumann wrote:
#  Guy N. Hurst wrote:
#  > I was browsing the older messages from last year, and
#  > decided to request the features discussed in ruby-talk
#  > messages 2865, 2872, and 2887:
#  > 
#  > Numeric#odd?
#  > Numeric#even?
#  > Numeric#negative?
#  > Numeric#positive?

A very nice addition to Numeric#zero?

#  > String#lstrip
#  > String#rstrip
#  
#  I'd personally prefer:
#  
#   String#ltrim
#   String#rtrim
#  
#  Both coming from BASIC :)

Or synonyms? I mean -- we already have strip():

strip <=> trim, lstrip <=> ltrim, rstrip <=> rtrim ?

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Dennis Decker Jensen