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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: List Container Strawman 1.4
Date: 22 Dec 2001 12:29:02 +0000
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> It could be done. I think the only reason there isn't a Null_List
> there now is that no one else thought of a reason why it would be
> needed.

The reason this was added to the BCs was so that it would be possible
to create aggregates of types with Container elements.