[Templates] CHOMP feature request

[Andy Wardley]

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

I thought about that.  Then I tried typing it:

  [%-- foo --%]
  [%~ foo ~%]

I thought the '--' made it look too long, whereas the '~' snuggled in
nicely.  

Also, it might interfere with a future --foo / foo-- decrement operator:

  [% --foo %]  vs  [%-- foo %]  vs  [%--foo%]
  [% foo-- %]  vs  [% foo --%]  vs  [%foo--%]

But rather than making a unilateral decision on such an important matter, 
I took the scores from 12 judges, had the computer randomly discard 3 of 
them, summed the remaining 9 scores, multiplied the convenience factor by 
the inconvenience ratio, added the addition character compensation correction 
amount and the result was...  

...the '~' won.    :-)

A

(http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay/EC2006/ for those who haven't got a clue 
why I'm talking about all those judges)