Re: master 87e422f: Beef up the Emacs string utility set a bit

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Anyway, I've now added this as `string-chop-newline' to keep some of the
>> flavour of "chomp".  Feel free to change it to something else.
>
> string-chop-newline is written more efficiently as
>
>   (string-remove-suffix "\n" string)

Now updated.

> which makes me wonder why we need it at all.

The github search seems to imply that it's something that people find
useful -- perhaps because it conveys intent?

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