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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp
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In article <34nbif$a96@belfort.daimi.aau.dk> olevi@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Villumsen) writes:
>rodrigo vanegas <rv@cs.brown.edu> writes:
>
>>In article <34n2qe$d74@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bruno Haible) writes:
>
>>> 4. PROGN, LET, Lisp closures, list objects, defstruct objects, CLOS instances
>>>    all correspond to "pattern"s.
>
>>So what are these "patterns" anyway?  It sounds as if they are very
>>close if not identical to lisp closures.  After all, can't each of the
>>above lisp stuff can be implemented as sugar for closures.  
>
>I've posted a response to comp.lang.beta.
>I can also mail it to anyone interested.

This annoys me big time.  Why not post the reply to the newsgroups
that contained the original article?



