From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-10-25T17:22:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23270] Re: chop and chomp

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:23046] Re: chop and chomp"
    on 01/10/23, Alan Moore <alan_moore@gmx.net> writes:

|> You can specify `rs' for #chomp, $/ is just the default value
|
|I know that.  What I'm saying is that I shouldn't have to 
|specify it--chomp should recognize any of "\r\n", "\n" or 
|"\r" as a line ending and chop it off.  Just trying to match 
|the value of $/ is too clumsy when the line separator can 
|change from one document to the next, or even from one para-
|graph to the next.  Ruby's chop method is much more useful 
|than Perl's because of that one little enhancement.  Why not 
|enhance chomp as well?

OK, so what do you think the chomp behavior should be?
I mean the "detailed" behavior.

							matz.