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Alex Shinn scripsit: > It was John who insisted that the names be added, and John > who came up with most of the new names, so I'm assuming > he genuinely wants them. I do, though I didn't come up with the idea and in fact was initially against having more than one way to do it, but you convinced me otherwise. I think the long names are more self-documenting, more Schemey, and will make SREs more accessible to people who find string REs an abomination of the outer darkness. -- I marvel at the creature: so secret and John Cowan so sly as he is, to come sporting in the pool cowan@xxxxxxxx before our very window. Does he think that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Men sleep without watch all night?