Drat, thought I was sending this to the list:
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On Nov 17, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Ilmari Vacklin wrote:
Hi all,
I think that grep should be renamed to something English and more,
well,
semantic. 'Filter' comes to mind as a suggestion. I realise there's a
lot of cultural background (from Unix and Perl 5) that favours
'grep',
but I think it's more important to name the language elements
consistently (the right kind of consistency, I hope).
'sift' is the same number of characters as 'grep'. It's something
of a bikeshed to me whether this rename is implemented or not, though.
--Dks
