Well, it depends on what you define as 'de-facto' standard. I think that both names are equaly good. A quick 2-minute search gives me few example in favor of trim_left: - Microsoft - All libraries provieded by microsoft MFC, ATL, .Net, use *Left versions - Symbian API - has TrimLeft - Probably not very serious, but simple google comparison give following results: "trimhead OR trimhead" : 1,510 results "trim_left OR trimleft" : 40,400 results I don't have much time to look elsewhere, feel free to supply counterexamples. Before considering your proposal, I would really need to see better argument then your personal opinion, since changing a name of a function that is already in use for some time is quite serious issue. Cheers, Pavol. Yuval Ronen wrote:
After reading Jeff's post about super_string, it suddenly hit me: on RTL languages, the head of the string is actually the right side, so trim_left/trim_right should really be trim_head/trim_tail... I know that the left/right names for trimming are de-facto standard. In fact, they are so rooted, that even a native Hebrew speaker like me didn't get it until just now... But I think that if we want to be 100% accurate, then the head/tail names are more correct.
Yuval
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