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From:
Gordon Henriksen
Date:
January 31, 2004 10:53
Subject:
Re: Semantics of vector operations
Message ID:
48BF623A-53FC-11D8-8C89-000502994722@mac.com
Austin Hastings wrote:

> OTOH, Robin's concern for how to code when you're stuck with 7 bit 
> ascii on the boot console of a Sun box remains valid, and *I* sure 
> would rather have a short name available in a standard way.

Perhaps a solution is a cultural one, that it simply be a point of good 
style for library authors to provide ASCII alternatives in the form of 
multimethods. Then, at least, the alternative name will be pertinent to 
the module.

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Gordon Henriksen
malichus@mac.com
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