note Porculus <blockquote>Can be written <c>chomp(my $line = <STDIN>);</c> ;D</blockquote><p>But that doesn't generalise for all rvalue uses. For example, I frequently want to write something like</p> <c>frobnicate(chomp) while <$file>; # doesn't work</c> <p>and am of course instead forced to write the loop out longhand, since</p> <c>chomp, frobnicate($_) while <$file>; # yuck</c> <p>is starting to get hard to read.</p> <p>Personally I consider this a failure in Perl's Huffman coding. I can't think of a single case where I've cared in the slightest how many characters <c>chomp</c> removed, but I do want to be able to chomp something and then immediately pass the chomped value to some other routine.</p> 728569 728581