Re: Fwd: Renaming grep

[Chip Salzenberg]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:46:51AM +0200, Ilmari Vacklin wrote:
> I don't much like it - it looks like a mistyped 'shift'.
> Is 'filter' too long?

I usually avoid P6L discussions, but:

GNU Make has "filter" and "filter-out", and I've always found the
polarity hard to remember.

I like grep.
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Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Fwd: Renaming grep

[Ilmari Vacklin]

On to, 2005-11-17 at 22:44 -0500, David Storrs wrote:
> '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.

I don't much like it - it looks like a mistyped 'shift'. Is 'filter' too
long?

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wolverian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Fwd: Renaming grep

[David Storrs]

Drat, thought I was sending this to the list:


Begin forwarded message:


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