On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 11:01 AM Stephen J. Turnbull <stephenjturnbull@gmail.com> wrote:

Chris Angelico writes:

> +1, although it's debatable whether it should be remove suffix or
> remove all. I'd be happy with either.

If by "remove all" you mean "efefef" - "ef" == "", I think that's a
footgun. Similarly for "efabcd" - "ef" == "abcdef" - "ef".

Steve

Maybe it should be "remove the first one" rather than a suffix.

Then for removal of multiple substrings, you could allow the RHS to be a sequence of substrings:

>>> "efaxefef" - "ef"

"axefef"

>>> "efaxefef" - ["ef", "ax"]

"efef"

>>> "efaxefef" - ["ef"]*3

"ax"

BTW these are interesting ideas and I'm just exploring the possibilities. Not proposing or agreeing with anything.