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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..." :)
        -- forcer

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