Well, this has been let slide far too long -- it's time to address
string formatting and transformations. I know some folks have nudged
on this stuff, so lets get it going.

Here's a list of the string transformation stuff I think we need:

upcase
downcase
swapcase
upcase first letter
downcase first letter

And yes, I know these are meaningless for a good chunk of the encoded
data, but that's fine. If there are reasonable text transforms for
non-latin alphabets we can see about getting those in. If there's a
reason that the sequence "downcase/upcase first" is insufficient to
turn a string lower-case except for the first character someone speak
up and we'll add in a specialty entry for that.

As for formatting, I think we can reasonably provide both
sprintf-style formatting and more traditional COBOL-style formatting.
(Which, yes, I know, is generally viewed as nasty, but being able to
throw an integer into a "$(999,990.00)" format and get a nicely done
money display is really handy) I'm not, however, sure whether it's
worth making an op for one or both of these, or throwing them into
the standard library. (I can see a good case for building the
standard library into the Parrot executable as well, though I'm not
sure I want to do that as it'll make it tough to upgrade)

So, anyway, opinions?
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