From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2007-03-25T02:17:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestion: swap name of "puts" and "print" and rename "puts" to "put_s"

Michael Brooks wrote:
> I'd like to suggest that the functionality of the names "puts" and 
> "print" should be swapped so that "print" automatically sends a newline 
> character and "puts" doesn't.

Hrm... That breaks the "Huffman-encoding" of the current scheme. #puts 
is by far the more used method, and so it's shorter. Maybe call it #put 
or #say, and then pick a longer name for the feedless version (maybe 
stick with #print, though something that acknowledged its correlation 
with #put would be nice).

   alias put puts
   alias put_on print # short for put_on_the_same_line
   alias eminence_front put_on # look it up
   undef puts; undef print
? **

Devin

* #p and #y are excused -- one-character names are illegibly short, so 
they can be reserved for little debug functions where terseness 
(tersion?) is of primary import.

** Not a serious proposition, you turd.