Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:39:26PM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote:
> If one presumes that Parrot is going to be so much nicer than the
> current Perl internals that many more people will be interested in it,
> then maybe it makes sense to make names as readable as possible, even if
> they are not what Perl historically used.
> 
> I propose, for example, "intval" for IV and "floatval" for NV.

Eeeeuw!

That is merely a matter of vocabulary, and if people can cope with such
terse 'words' as cp, ln, sed, etc then they can cope with IV and NV.

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