John Williams wrote in perl.perl6.language :
> 
> While "purge" is cute, it certainly is not obvious what it does.  Of
> course neither is "grep" unless you are an aging unix guru...
> 
> How about something which is at least obvious to someone who knows what
> grep is, such as "vgrep" or "grep:v"?

If you want good'ol Unix flavor, call it "vrep". Compare the ed(1) /
ex(1) / vi(1) commands (where 're' stands for regular expression, of
course) :
    :g/re/p
    :v/re/p

What would be an idiomatic Perl 6 implementation of such a vrep function ?

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