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> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:38:38PM +0200, Thomas Wittek wrote:
> > Jonathan Lang schrieb:
> > > IMHO, syntax should be left alone until a compelling reason to change
> > > it is found. While I think it would be nice to have a more intuitive
> > > name for grep
> > What would be the disadvantage of renaming it to a more intuitive name?
> > I can only see advantages.
>
> Lost culture perhaps. There's a long strong tradition of the term
> "grep" in perl and it would be a shame to toss that away without some
> serious thought.
I would second that strongly. Perl6 is already different enough from
Perl5 for good reasons; making it different for bad reasons seems to me
a really bad idea.
If this sort of change is on the cards, then for consistency a serious
effort should be made to remove *all* Unixisms from Perl (unlink, flock,
fork, and all the signal stuff spring to mind; a case could be made for
the filetest ops as well). I think that that level of culture- and
history-loss would be a real shame; I can see however that others may
think it more important to make Perl more platform-agnostic in
character as well as in implementation.
Ben
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