Hi David!
My guess is as good as yours but I think rel is short for relation (as in a relation in relational algebra). The x might as well be a, b, or any other short variable name. In clojure-docs it looks like the examples for #'join use first-relation and second-relation instead of xrel and yrel to avoid any confusion:

http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.set/join

HTH,
Ben

On 7/19/12 2:37 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:
Hey all - relatively new to the party here. I understand that an xrel is a set of maps, but can anybody explain to me where it gets the name xrel? --
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