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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C
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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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
