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From:         loc@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Leigh Clayton)
Subject:      Re: Sharp Packages (was Re: APL acceptance)
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 It's usually adangerous thing to indulge in such luxuries as crossing posts
with rbe :-). I'll just remark that the jump from 'some way to get functions
into the ws efficiently' to the notion of 'mini workspaces' happened during the
course of a single bull session. The correspondance between this idea and the
(already speeded-up on our system) ')copy' logic was part of the idea even
then. The other points he makes I concede, but they're largely irrelevant since
they're language design arguments proceding from implementation concerns. (No
Bob ... don't shoot ...I give up ... :-)

../Leigh

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Leigh Clayton                     loc@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM
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