Kaz Kylheku  <kkylheku@gmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Rememeber, an accessor is a generic function, and generic functions
| stand apart from classes!
| 
| The ``of'' is kind of superfluous.
| 
| Consider that some people pronounce f(x) as  ``f of x''. You can
| do the same: write (grade student) but read it ``grade of student''.
+---------------

One situation where "-of" (and similar suffixes) might be useful
is where the accessor name you'd naturally want to used is already
defined as a function inherited from the CL package [which generally
can't have methods added to them], and you'd rather not SHADOW it, e.g.: 

   (phase-of signal)

Such names can of course be used as accessors for unrelated classes, e.g.:'

   (phase-of moon)


-Rob

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