All: It seems the front runner for the name of the thing is arbarray (Ilya + Andrew). Thought I'd throw one more name suggestion into the ring: urefarray for unaligned reference array. This shows its commonality with refarray i.e. that both copy references and not copy values, and a "u" suffix or prefix is common enough in SSE code. Awaiting thy verdict :-) Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com aim: pixglen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.pixelglow.com/lists/archive/macstl-dev/attachments/20050924/a888a784/attachment.html