Re: RFC 90 (v1) Builtins: zip() and unzip()

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:54:10PM +1000, iain truskett wrote:
> * Jeremy Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13 Aug 2000 17:28]:
> [...]
> > Personally, I like 'weave' rather than 'zip'. I'm happy with 'unweave'
> > too--although I'm still unsure about that one...
> 
> Weave is too much like Knuth's tangle and weave pair of programs for his
> WEB idea. *sigh* All the good names are taken =)

That, however, is nowhere as well known (=confusion causing) as 'zip'.
Pretty much every English verb must have by now been taken as a name of a
piece of software, we have to draw the line somewhere...

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