[Perl6-internals] RFC 361 (v1) Simplifying split()

TC> The reason that this was done this way was for the common
TC> case of someone forgetting to chop an incoming line and
TC> then splitting on whitespace.

TC> while (<>) {
TC> @F = split;
TC> ...
TC> }

Interesting. I thought it was to make it more natural.

When splitting on whitespace, one is interested in the non-space tokens.
Effectively the leading and trailing whitespace isn't there.

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