Annual reminder that Perl 6 has a method called FatRat.nude() https://docs.perl6.org/type/FatRat.html#(Rational)_method_nude …
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Replying to @qntm
Of course, there are perfectly good explanation for those names, but you know what would be better? Names which required no explanation!
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Perl 5 and Perl 6 are both riddled with this problem. Cute explanations are preferred to just behaving in a transparently obvious way
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E.g. Perl 6 refers to ASCII as "Texas". https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode_texas … Why? To drag you into a friendly chat about Perl 6
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This is personal, by the way. I know more than I wish to about Perl 5, and Perl 6 is just the same but more and worse
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I just find "cutesy, fun, every feature has whimsical reasoning" to be the most aggravating possible design philosophy for a language
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Perl 5 is so easy to remember that the docs provide mnemonics http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html
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