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From:
Elizabeth Mattijsen
Date:
October 23, 2003 09:28
Subject:
Re: new slurp module
Message ID:
p05111b00bbbdb1ec581f@[192.168.56.2]
At 15:31 +0000 10/23/03, Peter Scott wrote:
>In article <20031023090325.GC3953@localhost.comcast.net>,
> schwern@pobox.com (Michael G Schwern) writes:
>>I like the term slurp. Larry likes it, too, IIRC. You should
>>alias read_file() to slurp() and export it. spew()'s not a bad name
> >either for write_file().
>My vote is for burp() (I suggested it to Uri while he was writing
>his article).
>It's less visceral and it rhymes with slurp(). I don't want to feel
>nauseated while writing Perl, I read enough nauseating Perl as it is.
>Next thing you know there'll be more powerful routines like vomit(),
>puke(), blow_chunks(), and a Perl program will look like the Crunchy Frog
>sketch. Go with burp() and the farthest you can go down that road will
>be belch() and eructate().
I always have used "splat" as the opposite to "slurp" in my
particular implementation of this functionality.
Liz
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