2000-08-28-18:47:06 Tom Christiansen:
It strikes me as a bit reminiscent of (one reason) why Larry
didn't make a+b work on strings, since then while with numbers,
a+b and b+a would be the same, with strings they would not be, and
we have these rather deeply held convictions about such
Oh geez! I'm sorry, I forgot to mention David Nicol in the REFERENCES,
who also gave great input, especially on the BOOLEAN accessor. Thanks
David! I swear I'll put you in v2. :-{
-Nate
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