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From: BUDDENBERGRA@USC-ISI.ARPA (Rex Buddenberg)
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Subject: extensions, a modest proposal
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 19:34:10 EST
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Since overloading is deemed evil (which may indeed be true), why
not remove the discussion from the realm of language definition
entirely.  Wirth did this in M2 for I/O by exiling the subject
to auxiliary modules.  Maybe we should do the same with all
the operators, not just the ones we wish to overload...
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