The last time I used chop() was to solve a word puzzle. Find pairs of words that can be turned into one another by slicing in "half" and swapping the pieces...
i.e.
vessel becomes selves:
vessel => SLICE => 'ves' | 'sel'
SWAP => 'sel' | 'ves'
NEW => 'selves'
loyal becomes alloy
loyal => SLICE => 'loy' | 'al'
SWAP => 'al' | 'loy'
NEW => 'alloy'
The code that looped through the transformations looked something like:
$word = chop($word) . $word;
I can't say that I'll miss chop() but if it was up to me, I wouldn't remove it.
-Blake
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