From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-10-30T15:45:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23812] Re: chop and chomp

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:23637] Re: chop and chomp"
    on 01/10/28, Alan Moore <alan_moore@gmx.net> writes:

|One thing you might do is to have chomp use the value of '$/'
|only if it's _not_ one of the standard line separators ("\n",
|"\r\n", or "\r").  If it does hold one of those values, chomp
|would look for all three.  Then you could deprecate the use of
|'$/' with chomp and phase it out over a couple of releases.
|And the same goes for each_line, of course.

Since "$/"'s default value is '\n', I'm going to treat it specially;
if '$/' (or the value of optional argument to chomp) is '\n', chomp
will do smart chomp.

							matz.