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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Behavior of Stream Attributes On Access Types.
Date: 15 Jun 2002 15:56:46 +0100
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> Nope. Not a "mistake" - except maybe stylistically. I have evolved a
> very specific question here that seems to be getting
> misunderstood. I don't want to know how to override the default
> 'Read and 'Write for an access type. (I know *how* to do that - but
> not necessarily what the "default" behavior is.  From other posts, I
> suspect just the pointer value is written.) What I want to know is
> what happens as you go up the food-chain on tagged records once you
> override the default 'Read and 'Write.

Oh, sorry; I guess what we're all failing to grasp is why you would
want to do that.

Since the only contribution I would be able to make would be to try it
and see, I'll shut up ..