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In article <820365420snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
           john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:

>Though a few classes with private data would make it much more
>readable IMO (or do I mean OMPSB -- on my personal soap box!).

Ah yes, but then I was saying what _is_, rather than what would be nice
<g>.  A decent string class is my favourite, it makes text manipulation
programs (and SNEWS is mainly that) much clearer with just that one
piece of syntactic sugar.  Converting the internal functions into a
class or three ould make it even easier to maintain, if done properly
(if not, it makes it unreadable, but that's the nature of complex
languages).

>Except for the 2.17 version that Gordon Beck did, with
>prototypes.  Prototypes, way to go!  [rest of article drowned
>by crescendo of whole stadium chanting "Pro- to- types, pro- to- types..."]

:-)  I haven't seen that yet - I remember seeing someone saying they
were going to do it, but not the result.  Is that based on 2.16d (the
Ascend fix one)?

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