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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: BLAS
Date: 2000/05/18
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In article <wcc3dngahf0.fsf@world.std.com>,
  Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
>
> > I am puzzled, it simply seems to me to be a matter of
syntax.
> > Syntactically x'base is a subtype mark, since it is a name
> > that denotes a subtype. End of story. Does not seem like
> > a non-obvious conclusion to me. ...
>
> Lots of things are "obvious" once you know the right answer.
;-)
> How many times has the ARG come to a conclusion that is
obviously right
> to everyone, after much bitter argument?  ;-)


Sure, but still something that is in the syntax is pretty
clear to everyone, the good old Sanskrit scholars who
invented BNF a thousand years ago figured this one out!


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