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Re: [Chicken-users] Hygienic Chicken's desftruct issue


From: Alan Post
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Hygienic Chicken's desftruct issue
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:24:45 -0601

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:31:42PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Peter Bex scripsit:
> 
> > Perhaps you (or someone else on the list?) can think of a better name
> > that can be prefixed, to remove all confusion? Ideally it'd be something
> > which has been done before in Scheme, or failing that, something people
> > would have absolutely no preconceptions about.
> 
> "clone-<type>" would fit the latter description, or how about
> "make-duplicate-<type>"?
> 

I'll also propose transmogrify-<type> and
make-duplicate-with-ethicator-<type>.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmogrifier#Cardboard_boxes

-Alan
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