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From: rms@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
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Subject: possible modification to constructor expressions
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Date: 8 Oct 88 01:13:56 GMT
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    would it be possible to eliminate the cast operator on the front
    of the list and infer the type of a homegenous bracketed list
    from its elements (or maybe just the first element)?

It might be possible, but I think it is a very bad idea.  I will not
introduce expressions whose meanings depend on the context.