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[John Snelson]

Florent Georges wrote:
>   Regarding dynamism of a query, first-class function items will be very interesting.  That's not the same thing as being able to overload a template rule, but that will provide a module the ability to change the behavior of an imported module (in some explicitly defined ways though.)

Yes - higher order functions will make this more interesting. I'm 
expecting that partial evaluation and specialization of such functions 
will go a long way to removing some of the problems with the dynamic 
dispatch.

John

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