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shlex means it's like the Python shlex module.

pwent and grent have been called that for 46 years, though usually only in the names of functions: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getgrent&sektion=3

Similarly, chown. Or is your complaint that there are two different chown calls?

Trying to rename these things would make the library a lot harder to understand. Can you imagine if someone decided to call the USA "Samland" because they thought the three-letter identifier was too short? Would that reduce confusion?

I kind of agree about vtable, though.

Arrays are part of the base language, not a module. Not sure about sets and maps.



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