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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Is this expected behavior or not
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:37:31 -0500
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Date: 2013-04-11T17:37:31-05:00
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> In that case there is simply no alternative to multi-methods because n-ary
> operations do not have preferable argument. So what are you going to do
> with this? You ditch operations, literals, slices. A great theory!

Yup, operations that you don't need, and that are dangerous on top of that. 
You continually claim that you need multi-methods without a shred of proof. 
Changing/comparing different representations is something that a program 
should do very rarely, if at all.

                            Randy.