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Re: Naming
- To: RPG@SAIL.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: Re: Naming
- From: Danny Bobrow <Bobrow.pa@Xerox.COM>
- Date: 4 Feb 88 16:53 PST
- Cc: common-lisp-object-system@SAIL.Stanford.EDU
- In-reply-to: Dick Gabriel <RPG@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>'s message of 04 Feb 88 16:31 PST
- Sender: Bobrow.pa@Xerox.COM
We need to decide by the end of the weekend what to do about
naming. I strongly hesitate to make the change (if it can be said
that one can strongly hesitate). If we make the change I prefer the
terms NAME-<word> over SYMBOL-<word>. I worry that we will make an
ugly mistake in doing this.
To avoid such ugliness, let us leave symbol-class and (setf symbol-class) with a
restriction to symbols.
However, let us take out any restriction about what can be stored/returned from
class-name. Then the dynamic-class hack can work using its own class lookup
mechanism, and class-name can contain the hint about what the class is.
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