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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Overloading attributes
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:57:44 +0100
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On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:13:17 -0800 (PST), Matt Borchers wrote:

> Why is it that one cannot overload the 'Image and 'Value attribute
> similar to how we can overload 'Input, 'Output, 'Read, and 'Write?

Because they are so broken that it does not make any sense to repair. Image
and Value should have been primitive operations and don't refer the
[sub]type.

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