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The overhaul of neighborhood functions in the grids gives us an opportunity to do some renaming of the new functions.  Issues:

	- Sometimes we use "Position" (MASON terminology for a point on-screen) when we mean "Location" (MASON terminology for a location in a field), and that should be rectified

	- "Max" and "Hamiltonian" are strange names.  Hamiltonian in particular is a term borrowed, I believe, from Repast, and I can't see any justification for it.  I am inclined to use "Square" and "Diamond", though this means we have to use different terms for the 3D case.

	- "Neighbors" should refer to objects, not locations.

	- It'd be nice if the names were shorter.

So here is a possible renaming.  I'm just throwing it out here to get some feedback.  

Sean


IN GRID2D and GRID3D AND SUBCLASSES:

getNeighborsMaxDistance(...locations...)   ->   getLocationsInSquare
getNeighborsHamiltonianDistance(...locations...)   ->   getLocationsInDiamond
getNeighborsHexagonalDistance(...locations...)   ->   getLocationsInHexagon


IN OBJECTGRID2D, DENSEGRID2D, AND SPARSEGRID2D:

getNeighborsMaxDistance(...objects...)   ->   getNeighborsInSquare
getNeighborsHamiltonianDistance(...objects...)   ->   getNeighborsInDiamond
getNeighborsHexagonalDistance(...objects...)   ->   getNeighborsInHexagon

getNeighborsAndCorrespondingPositionsMaxDistance(...)   ->   getNeighborsAndCorrespondingLocationsInSquare
getNeighborsAndCorrespondingPositionsHamitonianDistance(...)   ->   getNeighborsAndCorrespondingLocationsInDiamond
getNeighborsAndCorrespondingPositionsHexagonalDistance(...)   ->   getNeighborsAndCorrespondingLocationsInHexagon



IN CONTINUOUS2D and CONTINUOUS3D:

getNearestNeighbors(...)
getObjectsExactlyWithinDistance(...)	->	getNeighborsExactlyWithinDistance(...)
getObjectsWithinDistance(...)		->	getNeighborsWithinDistance(...)

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