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On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Jay Glascoe wrote: > But anyway, I see no reason why generic method names need be tied down to > the meaningless triplet ref/set!/del! We should choose more > understandable names for the benefit of Scheme-newcomers. Dylan uses element/element-setter/remove-key! http://www.harlequin.com/education/books/DRM/ I think lookup/insert!/remove! are good find/add!/delete! another possibility I would like to reserve a name for inserting all elements from another collection, i.e. add! foo-bar foo-bar add! foo-bar list or maybe unite! foo-bar foo-bar (possibly have a intersect!, and I still like consume!) In retrospect, "ref" isn't so bad. But I do think "set!" should be avoided if at all possible. > > Jay Glascoe > jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov > >