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<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">Think of something like</div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">(<name-of-reference-operator> #2A((1 0) (0 1)) 0 0)</font> ==>
<font face="Courier New" class="">1</font></div>
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<div class="">of</div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">(<name-of-reference-operator> #H((foo . bar) (we . 42)) ‘foo)</font> ==>
<font face="Courier New" class="">BAR</font> ; I am cheating. <font face="Courier New" class="">
#H(..)</font> is a hash table.</div>
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<div class="">SETF methods will be defined as expected.</div>
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<div class="">Now. What could be a good name? I have the following list.</div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">REF</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">REF$</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">[[]]</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">AT</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">GETAT</font></div>
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<div class="">What do you think? (Full disclosure: I usually refrain from taking up non alphabetic names)</div>
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<div class="">Cheers</div>
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<div class="">MA</div>
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