From: Alan Moore <alan_moore@...>
Date: 2001-10-25T23:34:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23298] Re: chop and chomp

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

If no argument is provided, it should look for "\r\n", 
"\n", or "\r" (in that order) at the end of the line 
and chop it off if it finds it.  AFAIK, "\r", like 
"\n", is never used as anything but (part of) a line 
separator, so that shouldn't cause any problems--but 
please correct me if I'm wrong.  I don't think chomp 
should bother with $/ at all.  

String#each_line should take this approach as well.

--Alan