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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: 'img
Date: 2000/05/25
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In article <8ghcbh$rnj$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> Hmmm. Even neater would be to make it a primitive operator
attribute
> that can be overidden with a "for" clause, like 'Write. Then
folks could
> derive a new integer type and make its 'Img format the output
however
> they like.


Even neater?

This is of course easy to implement, but not particularly
useful, since the difference between writing X'Img and Img(X)
is small, and the advantage of the latter is that it can be
used with expressions which of course the attribute cannot.


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