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Leon Timmermans
Date:
August 1, 2010 16:38
Subject:
Re: Suggested magic for "a" .. "b"
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AANLkTi=k63ZHeScbqHynJs1pv6cTwAnOz9=eCYv=K2a8@mail.gmail.com
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Martin D Kealey
<martin@kurahaupo.gen.nz> wrote:
> In any case I'd much rather prefer that the behaviour be lexically scoped,
> with either adverbs or pragmata, not with the action-at-a-distance that's
> caused by tagging something as fundamental as a String.

In many cases the collation isn't known at compile-time, so adverbs
would be necessary anyway. Pragma's can make things easier in many
cases.

Leon
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