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From: mark@parc.xerox.com (Mark Weiser)
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Subject: Re: Scheme is unnecessarily biased towards lists
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Date: 22 Sep 90 23:52:35 GMT
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In article <MARKF.90Sep21115255@montreux.ai.mit.edu> markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Mark Friedman) writes:

> (let ((old-+ +))
>   (set! + (lambda addends
>	      (if (my-new-numeric-types? addends)
>		  (apply my-new-numeric-type+ addends)
>		  (apply old-+ addends)))))

>-Mark

And what happens in this case if two (or more) different people
are doing this (in a large project, say), each has their own notion
of my-new-numeric-types, etc. etc.

-mark
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