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The first few functions I added to `builtin` were direct copies in behaviour and name from the equivalents in Scalar::Util, or newly-invented for the boolean feature. Among them are functions named `isweak` and `isbool`. These names don't have underscores. Core perl also seems to eschew the underscore, having many core operators as direct copies of the same named system calls from POSIX or similar. There are recent suggestions of adding new `builtin` functions with names like was_originally_string was_originally_builtin looks_like_number I think therefore I'd like to suggest renaming the existing `isweak` and `isbool` functions before people start using them, to `is_weak` and `is_bool`. What I'll probably do is rename them to having underscores in their names anyway, but provide a wrapper alias in case people have started writing code on those names. We can remove the wrapper at some later time - because these are all "experimental" anyway and they're still very new. I'd also like to suggest that the naming scheme for new additions going forward should be to use snake_case, even for such prefixes as "is_". Thoughts anyone? -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Next