Suggestion that single alphabetic letter a..z subs/routines be reserved for future Raku system/core use. #493
Description
Similar to the meta-character reservation in the Raku Regex engine ( non-alnum characters are reserved as future meta-characters ), this proposal suggests that single alphabetic letter a()..z() (lowercase) subs/routines be reserved for future Raku system/core use.
The idea here is to reserve 26 subs that could be quickly deployed across the ecosystem to address any immediate security/infrastructure needs that arise. (Uppercase A..Z will be available to developers, regardless).
There are already a number of single-letter (conflicting?) conventions out there. Also Windows (maybe). See:
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html
https://askubuntu.com/a/1253013
https://ss64.com/bash/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54920857/single-letter-command-to-read-files-on-linux
https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~pjh503/linux/commands.html (permissions)
https://catonmat.net/ftp/ed.unix.text.editor.cheat.sheet.txt
Enforcement will probably be non-existent, although there could be the suggestion that sites like raku.land could warn developers upon uploading.
(For more stringent enforcement, a warning could be generated, necessitating the use of use lax or use unstrict).
Cheers.