Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:39 PM 9/19/2001 -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.

The only problem with those is they're so long, and I'm lazy. :)

                                        Dan

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