Naming suggestions

[Giovanni Gigante]

I think I like REF because it's also possible to pretend that it's just 
RE (for REference) followed by a mysterious F, just like SETF.

Else, FREF, for similar mystagogic reasons, being sort of a generalized 
form of things like AREF and SVREF.

On a more serious note: AT is good because it's concise, although 
slightly vague in semantics maybe.


gg


Antoniotti Marco wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> in the quest for RESTHBDB) RE-doing Stuff That Has Been Done Before) I 
> am trying to come up with a name for a referencing/dereferencing operator.
>
> Think of something like
>
> (<name-of-reference-operator> #2A((1 0) (0 1)) 0 0) ==> 1
>
> of
>
> (<name-of-reference-operator> #H((foo . bar) (we . 42)) ‘foo) ==> BAR 
> ; I am cheating. #H(..) is a hash table.
>
> SETF methods will be defined as expected.
>
> Now.  What could be a good name?  I have the following list.
>
> REF
> REF$
> []
> [[]]
> AT
> @
> GETAT
>
> What do you think? (Full disclosure: I usually refrain from taking up 
> non alphabetic names)
>
> Cheers
>
> MA
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