merge (Re: zip or marry etc)

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

Aahz Maruch wrote:
> 
> Precisely.  "Zip" has come to mean compression, and I think *that's* a

I hate to warm up the whole thread from python-dev, but I'll post
a quote from /F:

> is this the end of Python development?
> 
> just imagine what this crowd would have done if guido had asked
> you *before* he added things like:
> 
>     dir ("hey, dir should give you a list of filenames")
> 
>     cgi ("the computer graphics crowd won't like that")
> 
>     del ("removes files, right?")
> 
>     compile ("but people will think that it generates
>     machine code")
> 
>     global ("but it's not truly global. how about regional
>     or domestic?")
> 
>     hash ("that's a data type, right?") ("or perhaps something
>     from the The Amsterdam Aloha Seed Bank?")
> 
>     hex ("now wait.  it's not clear from the name if it con-
>     verts a hex string to an integer, or the other way around.
>     oh, it's the latter.  sorry, but that will confuse perl pro-
>     grammers")
> 
>     type ("is that some variation of print, or?")
> 
>     copy ("I'd say most people expect it to copy entire files")

Come on, other languages can live with zip(), too.

Peter
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