eliminate junk from std.string?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Max Samukha" <spambox at d-coding.com> wrote in message 
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> On 01/11/2011 05:36 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Yes, what I meant was that the names are stripl and stripr yet the 
>> description of
>> those functions are strip leading and strip trailing... at least put 
>> strip left
>> and string right on the description so it matches the names.
>
> Sorry for misunderstanding.
>
> I don't think that the description needs to match the names literally. 
> However, I would aviod "trailing" and "leading", because in RTL 
> environments they can have the opposite meaning.

I would have thought RTL languages got stored as RTL. If so, then "leading" 
and "trailing" would be correct and "left"/"right" would be wrong (unless 
the internal behavior of stripl and stripr takes language-direction into 
account, which would surprise me).