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 ?