On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Mark Engelberg wrote:

> 2.  Rename contains? to contains-key? and make a function with the new
> semantics called contains?  Disadvantage - breaks existing code.

You could also alias contains? to contains-key?, use seq-contains? (or some 
other new name) for this new function, and deprecate contains? with an eye 
towards removal down the road. Deprecation has been used successfully even in 
mature languages, hasn't it?

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