eliminate junk from std.string?

[Max Samukha]

On 01/11/2011 09:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Why care where they come from? Why not make them intuitive? Say, like,
>> "Always
>> camel case"?
>
> Because people are used to those names due to their wide use. It's the
> same reason that we still use Qwerty keyboards.

We should be careful in assuming what people are used to. Compare:

D/Python/Lisp/... - strip

.NET/Delphi/Java/Qt/Haskell/... - Trim/trim/trimmed

stripl/stripr are TrimStart/TrimEnd in .NET