Re: RFC 90 (v1) Builtins: zip() and unzip()

[iain truskett]

* Jarkko Hietaniemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [14 Aug 2000 00:15]:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:54:10PM +1000, iain truskett wrote:
> > * Jeremy Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13 Aug 2000 17:28]:
[...]
> > > Personally, I like 'weave' rather than 'zip'. I'm happy with
> > > 'unweave' too--although I'm still unsure about that one...
> > 
> > Weave is too much like Knuth's tangle and weave pair of programs for
> > his WEB idea. *sigh* All the good names are taken =)

> That, however, is nowhere as well known (=confusion causing) as 'zip'.
> Pretty much every English verb must have by now been taken as a name
> of a piece of software, we have to draw the line somewhere...

True, but we can still look. qw/fuse unite spin zigzag entwine/ etc.


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