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As I said, I think "slurp" is the culprit here.

I'm fine with "spew" cause it's a general term.

The "vomit" meaning is limited to human context, like in "to make someone spew".

> I think all of these method names are not meant to be taken 100% seriously ;-)

Yes, but wrong associations can lead to hard to debug misunderstandings.

For instance wantarray is true in "list" context.

This function should have been named wantlist() instead.

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