I like AT. I would be concerned by (setf (getat ....) ...)
My thoughts were GREF and XREF, and why we are not using a case-sensitive Lisp. hth, hk On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Antoniotti Marco < antoniotti.ma...@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 > > -- > Marco Antoniotti, Associate Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 > DISCo, Università Milano Bicocca U14 2043 http://bimib.disco.unimib.it > Viale Sarca 336 > I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY > > Please check: http://cdac.lakecomoschool.org > > Please note that I am not checking my Spam-box anymore. > Please do not forward this email without asking me first. > > > > > > -- Kenneth Tilton 54 Isle of Venice Dr Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 k...@tiltontec.com http://tiltontec.com @tiltonsalgebra 646-269-1077 "In a class by itself." *-Macworld*