On 7/6/11 11:57 AM, Mark Wiebe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Christopher Barker

>     Is this really true? if you use a bitpattern for IGNORE, haven't you
>     just lost the ability to get the original value back if you want to stop
>     ignoring it? Maybe that's not inherent to what an IGNORE means, but it
>     seems pretty key to me.
>
> What do you think of renaming IGNORE to SKIP?

This isn't a semantics issue -- IGNORE is fine.

What I'm getting at is that we need a word (and code) for:

"ignore for now, but I might want to use it later"

- Chris




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