On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:22:22 GMT, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David Green writes:
I guess we could always use prepend/append, pull/pop.
No! C<push> and C<pop> are a well-defined pair, not just in Perl, for dealing with stacks; we should keep those as they are. (And no synonyms, before somebody suggests any!)
Yeah. C<push> and C<pop> are old and glorious ones (asm comes to mind), and C<shift> is too (even DOS .bat files used it, AFAIR), and it's a one of the most used perl5 CORE:: ops (it's more common than other three) .. And I like to shift :)
the only doubtful word for me is unshift. Althought I would be pretty happy if we leave it as is, C<put> is nice and short.
but please don't swap meanings of old ops! if old push suddenly would try to unshift something, it could bring some perl5 programmers to hospital.
