Damian Conway wrote in perl.perl6.language :
> 
> I'd favour UNITCHECK and CHECK, mainly for the greater compatibility with
> Perl 5 and with software engineering jargon.

As far as Perl 5 is concerned, it appears that most people who write
CHECK mean UNITCHECK. Including you :)

> And because MAINCHECK is *ugly*. ;-)

I can't disagree.

> So ugly that, if we go the other way and do change CHECK's behaviour, then the 
> new postlinkage phase should be something else: like POSTLINK or PREINIT or 
> INTEGRATE.

But INTEGRATE is even more ugly.

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