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Re: Scheme as an abstract syntax tree.
Lalo Martins <lalo@hackandroll.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 01:58:32AM +0200, Jorgen 'forcer' Schaefer wrote:
> > This does not really work this way, because in Tcl, everything's
> > a string. foo will get "1" (string) as argument, and complain.
>
> Last time we had this discussion I suggested that generic
> methods _may_ provide a sollution for this problem, _if_
> someone is willing to rewrite most of the builtins to use
> argument types :-)
That was my point, *if* ... i don't think that's feasable, but
that's just my opinion. I didn't express the real problem well
enough, though. I just wanted to explain some problems with the
"it's just as simple as to..." :)
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