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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> writes:

> What I was thinking about was having wrapper packages, for the most
> important cases. I don't think this will turn out to be a mjor
> overhead. And it should ease the learning curve, even for experts,
> since these packages will be, in essence, example code...

It turns out that they would be quite hard to write for the BCs,
particularly because of Iterators; and I'm not sure how useful an
example a set of renamings of operations would be ..