RE: Literals: lexical spaces and value spaces

At 09:45 AM 11/14/01 -0600, Pat Hayes wrote:
>But you know, I feel that a datatyping scheme that would break - not just 
>barf, but give wrong answers - when subclass reasoning was extensionally 
>accurate, was far too 'fragile' for practical use, even if it could be 
>made to work on paper.

I agree that's a legitimate concern.  I don't know that I share it, but I'm 
open to persuasion.

#g


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