Re: Input sought on datatyping tradeoff

At 18:12 15/07/2002 -0400, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:

>I feel somewhat like the man who was asked if he was to be condemned to be 
>executed whether he would like scrambled eggs or pancakes for breakfast 
>before the execution.  After he replied ``Pancakes, of course'' he was 
>told that then it would certainly be all right to execute him.

I take your point but you would not let us away with that, would you :)

Brian