Michael Neumann wrote: # Guy N. Hurst wrote: # > I was browsing the older messages from last year, and # > decided to request the features discussed in ruby-talk # > messages 2865, 2872, and 2887: # > # > Numeric#odd? # > Numeric#even? # > Numeric#negative? # > Numeric#positive? A very nice addition to Numeric#zero? # > String#lstrip # > String#rstrip # # I'd personally prefer: # # String#ltrim # String#rtrim # # Both coming from BASIC :) Or synonyms? I mean -- we already have strip(): strip <=> trim, lstrip <=> ltrim, rstrip <=> rtrim ? -- Dennis Decker Jensen