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Alex Shinn scripsit: > If portability were not an issue, say a few months down the line when > IrRegex and SCSH are patched to support the long names, would you use > them? More like a few years before downstream systems follow. But if all of that were aside, and I were using Scheme, yes, I'd use the long names. They are easier for future programmers to maintain. (Normally I would say "easier for myself too", but the fact is that the string REs are engraved in my cortical fissures; I'm unlikely ever to forget them until I'm quite senile -- if that ever happens.) -- But you, Wormtongue, you have done what you could for your true master. Some reward you have earned at least. Yet Saruman is apt to overlook his bargains. I should advise you to go quickly and remind him, lest he forget your faithful service. --Gandalf John Cowan <cowan@xxxxxxxx>