Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by h1439878.stratoserver.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-2build1) with SMTP id p0QEcpGR031805 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:38:52 +0100 Received: (qmail 26218 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2011 14:38:46 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2011 14:38:45 -0000 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.100.212] by mx0.gmx.net (mx081) with SMTP; 26 Jan 2011 15:38:45 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p0QEaWPE011948 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:36:33 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p0QDVA9V001609; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:36:26 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 945361 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:36:26 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p0QEaQ1a009572 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:36:26 +0100 Received: from ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk (ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk [139.222.131.185]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p0QEa23X010978 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:36:07 +0100 Received: from ueams02.uea.ac.uk (ueams02.uea.ac.uk [139.222.131.131]) by ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p0QEa2I8004355 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:36:02 GMT Received: from [139.222.115.165] by ueams02.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi6TX-0002Xy-QK; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:35:59 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3986.1295947424@cl.cam.ac.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN, outgoing) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=139.222.131.131; country=GB; region=I9; city=Norwich; latitude=52.6333; longitude=1.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.6333,1.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: UEA:outgoing (inherits from UEA:default,base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 68260913 - e4eac18840b2 - 20110126 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 139.222.131.185 Message-ID: <4D403153.3030401@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:36:03 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Re: \clist_length:N and \clist_nth:N To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p77e5KAPs1l6v/Sb97LojnDtMgfETrECMLUO9erHzOJe+OynZRhvlGqb5A0X bbiCt2rAnnct/NAlbHMvoAL6GY+23tB3khNK7bnSLVW+CwI5D12EFi8O0kjG6WQoWUyJZa/tsAeZ e++4A==V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6576 On 26/01/2011 13:19, Mittelbach, Frank wrote: > I don't have any issue with element or elt (having been exposed to lisp long time ago) but my feeling is that "length" is rather a good name for the concept, but then we should use it in other places too and get rid of elt_count there. > > For _nth I think _element is ok, but I'm not so sure why _item would be bad. Don't see that there would be a conflict with other "items" of LaTeX. In fact it is the same concept, so why choose different names? We seem to have something of a consensus on this: 'length' and 'item' seem to be the best choices. -- Joseph Wright