in reply to What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff
As extracting of substring is a very frequent operation
It's actually quite rare to want to extract a substring by position.
Implement tail and head functions as synonyms to substr ($line,0,$len) and substr($line,-$len)
Nothing's stopping you from doing that right now.
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