RE: What is Perl?

[Ala Qumsieh]

Dirk wrote:

> How about considering the idea of "synonyms", though?    Is 
> it unreasonable to have "unlink()" and "fdelete()" (or 
> whatever it is on Win32) mean the same thing?

This brings back an idea I had a while ago. How about defining a module,
that could be part of the standard distribution, that offered those
shortcuts. So newbies could do something like

        use newbie;
or
        use synonyms;

and they'll have their shortcuts to their most favourite functions.

We could go even further as to generate a warning for each synonym call,
educating newbies as to what the real function names are.

Just an idea ...

--Ala