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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