Naming suggestions

[Alessio Stalla]

FSET uses 'lookup', also abbreviated to @.

On 5 February 2016 at 08:35, Vsevolod Dyomkin <vseloved at gmail.com> wrote:

> In rutilsx I have called generic access operator ? - see here:
> https://github.com/vseloved/rutils/blob/master/contrib/generic.lisp
> It allows the accessor code to stand up a bit, which I consider a good
> property. It is also chainable.
>
> Here's an example usage (totals, weights and timestamps here are
> hash-tables of hash-tables):
>
> (defmethod update1 ((model avg-perceptron) f class val)
>   (with-slots (step timestamps weights totals) model
>     (incf (? totals class f) (* (- step (? timestamps class f))
>                                           (? weights class f)))
>     (incf (? weights class f) val)
>     (setf (? timestamps class f) step)))
>
> AT also seems a decent choice
>
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> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Antoniotti Marco <
> antoniotti.marco at disco.unimib.it> 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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