[Templates] CHOMP feature request

[Larry Leszczynski]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Andy Wardley wrote:

> With '-' and '+' it's fairly clear (once you know what they do) that '-'
> removes whitespace and '+' leaves it alone.  The same is also true of '='
> for collapsing, if you think of it as two '-' signs with a space between
> them.  That's also analogous to what the operator does.  However '~' and '^'
> are a little more cryptic.

Not sure if this would complicate parsing (because it's 2 characters 
long), but what about '--' for greedy chomp?


> Then we make the '=' collapse operator do what it always should have 
> done, which is to replace *all* leading/trailing whitespace with a 
> single space.

+1 on this


Larry