Re: Beaujolais Effect -- what is it?

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <D070qy.2s8@inmet.camb.inmet.com>,
Tucker Taft <stt@spock.camb.inmet.com> wrote:
>
>The second place the Ripple effect came up was when we were trying to
>provide automatic direct visibility to (primitive) operators.  Ultimately
>we ended up with an explicit "use type" clause for making operators
>directly visible.  For a while we considered various rules that
>would make all primitive operators directly visible; some of
>the rules considered created the undesirable "Ripple" effects;
>others created annoying incompatibilities; all were quite tricky
>to implement correctly and efficiently.
>

Now that the Ripple effect has been fixed, can we fix the "Mad Dog
20/20" effect? (Don't ask me what the effect means -- the interesting
symptom of MD 20/20 is that you can't remember the incident after
you've been affected :-)


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