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Re: limits of the generic

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• Subject: Re: limits of the generic
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:24:20 -0400
• In-reply-to: <E17wPZJ-0008P1-00@m...>

Uche Ogbuji writes:
> However, if it is inevitable that the data types juggernaut must have
> its stone of flesh in the end, I would rather a mechanism such as the
> above allowed others to put their own data types on an even keel, and
> also allowed other forms of axiomatic processing besides data types. 
> I also like that it expresses value space operations as simple
> transforms on the plain lexical information, which is an important
> assertion of layering.

I'd rather avoid flesh-eating datatype juggernauts, but this proposal
seems to offer a good start toward providing functionality while keeping
the juggernauts well-leashed.

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