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From: USDGOG@VTVM1.BITNET (Greg Granger)
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Subject: Re: BIX - BYTE - JPI - Chaos
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Date: 19 Apr 91 13:24:59 GMT
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On Wed, 17 Apr 91 08:49:18 GMT <editor%ucf1vm.BITNET@LILAC.BERKELEY.EDU> said:
>...
>for each IO item... :-)     Personally, I support the idea of operator
>overloading and variable no. of parameters in procedure calls. It seems to
>me to be lack of imagination to suggest that compilers cant do this safely.
>(and yes, I have suggestions which involve minimal new syntactic elements).
>Add those features and you get real power in the libraries.

Absolutely!!!!!!!!
Why isn't (hasn't) someone done in something other than C++ or smalltalk?

Greg