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

[Kevin Reid]

On Dec 3, 2006, at 20:31, Mark S. Miller wrote:
> John Carlson wrote:
>> I don't know much about E, but how about 'rref' or 'remref' (maybe  
>> too much like remove instead of remote).
>
> Has the same problem as "rmt", "remote", "far", and "eventual": The  
> guard we need does not say the reference is remote, far, or  
> eventual, just that it might be. "Possibly eventual", "possibly  
> remote", or "not necessarily near" captures what we'd ideally like  
> to say, but we're still at a loss for a short name that expresses  
> any of these.

The best name I've thought of so far for that concept is 'somewhere'.  
Somewhere [which might be here].

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>