On Nov 19, 2005, at 13:08 , Chip Salzenberg wrote:
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:46:51AM +0200, Ilmari Vacklin wrote:
I don't much like it - it looks like a mistyped 'shift'.
Is 'filter' too long?
I usually avoid P6L discussions, but:
GNU Make has "filter" and "filter-out", and I've always found the
polarity hard to remember.
I like grep.
I like grep, too.
FYI google gave me 6,650,000 "grep"s and 4,390,000 "sift"s.
IMHO grep is popular enough.
Well, google gave me some 158,000,000 "filter"s but that's rather too
common and ambiguous. Note filter does not always sift (i.e. perl -
ple '$_="$.:$_"').
Dan the (grepp|sift|filter)ed Man
