Paul Prescod:
# 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.
'number_with_a_decimal_point_t' and 'number_without_a_decimal_point_t'?
:^)
Programmers are already used to slightly strange names. For example,
what the hell does 'double' have to do with a number with a decimal
point? (The first time I worked in C++, I asked my teacher. He
explained to me that it has double the precision of a float; I still
thought it was weird, and still do.) Two acronyms are fine--at least we
got rid of the evil 'PV' (which, at first glance, has nothing to do with
strings).
If we went with longer names, I'd suggest something like 'IntT'. Most
programmers will understand that, and it's still only four characters.
Keep it short and simple.
--Brent Dax
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They *will* pay for what they've done.
