[e-lang] Proposal: deprecate "rcvr" in favor of "ref"

[Mark S. Miller]

Kevin Reid wrote:
> *Everything* is a ref, or a ref is something which behaves like its  
> target, and in either case something called ':ref' can't be any  
> different than ':any', and the same for ':ref[X]' and ':X'.


:ref is indeed the same as :any. However, :X means "a near reference to an X", 
whereas :ref[X] (or whatever we decide to call it) means "a reference to an X".

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     Cheers,
     --MarkM