Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rm...@netbsd.org> writes: > Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-tech-k...@mumble.net> wrote: >> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 16:56:58 +0100 >> From: Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rm...@netbsd.org> >> >> What is "intern"? >> >> `Intern' means `lookup, or create and insert if not there'. > > The point being is that I do not find it meaningful/intuitive. Many other > systems just use get(). If you want more accurate name, I suggest conget() > or something more meaningful.
Agreed that it may be surprising, but intern has a long history of that kind of meaning in Lisp: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_intern.htm
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