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by b2gills 2737 days ago
You are sort-of right.

It should have used a different word.

A similar example would be the word `length`.

There is no `length` in Perl 6 because it is ambiguous. Instead there is `.elems` and `.chars`.

It is perhaps even a worse because there are other languages which use `contains` to see if the container has a given element.