Re: Some Dylan improvements

• To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
• Subject: Re: Some Dylan improvements
• From: brucehoult@pobox.com (Bruce Hoult)
• Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:45:02 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: The Internet Group Ltd
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In article <m3zorgcxuc.fsf@soma.andreas.org>, Andreas Bogk
<andreas@andreas.org> wrote:

> Hugh Greene <q@tardis.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > make improper <list>s *not* a subclass of <collection>; and (b) to have
> > collections which just have members, not key-value pairs, e.g., for sets
> > and multisets.
> 
> Yes, I'm really missing these too.

Can't this be subsumed within the current framework, given a sufficiently
smart compiler?  Just use limited() and have the element type be some type
with only one value, so that the compiler in fact doesn't have to store
anything at all for it.

-- Bruce

• Some Dylan improvements
• From: Eric Gouriou <eric_gouriou@cup.hp.com>
• Re: Some Dylan improvements
• From: Hugh Greene <q@tardis.ed.ac.uk>

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