Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
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> m/.../Count (instead of m/.../t)
> m/.../iCount (instead of m/.../it)
> m/.../Count,i (instead of m/.../ti)
> m/.../Count,Insensitive (instead of m/.../ti)
Blech, no. Please. Less typing good. More typing bad.
If you're just proposing synonyms, I don't see anyone using these
besides as mneumoics. In which case, the key is just making sure that we
pick good letters.
I don't see us running out of letters. Last I checked, m// only takes
half a dozen flags. I haven't been counting, but I'm pretty sure I
haven't seen 20 new flags proposed.
If we want to use uppercase, make these unique as well. That gives us
many more combinations, and is not necessarily confusing:
m//f - fast match
m//F - first match
m//i - case-insentitive
m//I - ignore whitespace
And so on. This seems like a much more productive use, otherwise we're
just wasting characters.
-Nate
