From: dempsejn@...
Date: 2002-01-04T18:38:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30198] Re: chomp for arrays?

Hi Guy,

Yeah, I realize its made for strings...but like the snippet Sean 
posted, if it encounters types other than strings it would leave them 
alone...is there any reason why this would be a bad idea to implement 
internally?

----- Original Message -----
From: ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr>
Date: Friday, January 4, 2002 4:23 am
Subject: [ruby-talk:30193] Re: chomp for arrays?

> >>>>> "d" == dempsejn  <dempsejn@georgetown.edu> writes:
> 
> d> I was wondering if there was a built-in for chomping an Array. 
> I was 
> d> going to write a little one liner to include in various places, 
> but it 
> d> seems like it'd be useful to have chomp be able to accept an 
> array as 
> d> well. Has there been any discussion on this or reasons not to?
> 
> Well, actually chomp is defined as a method of String or a global
> function. What do you do if the array contain something other 
> than a
> String ?
> 
> 
> 
> Guy Decoux
>