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From: Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: 'img
Date: 2000/05/25
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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.

All the attributes could be some more polymorphic, user inheritable, etc.

break

I could imagine, that integer'image(x) and x'image could easily
live together, mmh?

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