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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Tagged type abuse
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:01:04 +0100
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:26:58 +0000 (UTC), Natasha Kerensikova wrote:

> What would you recommend to appease such feelings?

That all types should have been tagged anyway (meaning: has T'Class with a
type tag stored in it).

> Sacrificing prefix notation readability on types that have no business
> being tagged?

I think that prefix notation was a language design bug. As such it has
nothing to do with the type being tagged or having a class.

Prefix notation should have been an implementation of an abstract record
member of some subprogram type.

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