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Re: ice-9



Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de writes:
> Perry E. Metzger writes:
>  > 
>  > Now that 1.3 is long since gone, can we finally dump the awful name of 
>  > "ice-9" in favor of something better?
> 
> What is bad about ice-9 ?

It doesn't mean anything. It is best to have names that explain to the 
user what they are for. Better to call a function "rebooted-following-panic?"
than "gazorknoplant", for instance.

Perry