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From: jwb@cepmax.ncsu.EDU (John W. Baugh Jr.)
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Subject: Abstraction vs representation (was Re: Correct LisP (was Re: in defense of C))
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Date: 12 Mar 90 22:52:34 GMT
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In article <2452@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>, utility@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca
(Ronald BODKIN) writes:
[stuff deleted]
> The issue gets more emphatic when
> people start to say "well I know that a window structure is just a list:
> (x y dx dy textcolor)" and rely on this kind of thing.
> 	Ron

Not unlike the way many oo people use slot names to define a "type."

John (donning my asbestos suit) Baugh