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From:
David Storrs
Date:
March 15, 2005 20:54
Subject:
Re: s/true/better name/
Message ID:
20050316045442.GD13755@megazone.bigpanda.com
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:23:19AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:51:57AM +0100, Juerd wrote:
> : Autrijus suggested "indeed" or "id", of which I like "indeed" better,
> : because I'd like to continue using "id" with databases.
> 
> "id" is too heavily overloaded with identifiers and identities and such.
> But "indeed" doesn't work right in context, "while indeed..."
> 
> I'd go with either "istrue" or "so".  "ok" is another possibility,
> though that seems to connote definedness more than truth.

It also breaks a huge percentage of the testing code that we would
like to be able to automagically port from P5 to P6.

--Dks

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dstorrs@dstorrs.com

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