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Date:Mon Nov 27 19:33:08 1995 
Subject:Re: reporting pop bugs (and pvars) 
From:Robert Duncan 
Volume-ID:951128.07 

A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk writes:

> [Tirade against warning messages deleted...]
> The "official" answer to this is that one should not use the pattern
> matcher because it is flawed...

I don't know where this curious idea came from. There is no "official"
opposition to the pattern matcher. It's unfortunate that the matcher
works only with permanent variables, making it more cumbersome to use
than it could be, but anyone who's happy using it is quite entitled to
carry on doing so.

> I think a dreadful design decision has been taken... complete
> disregard... completely unacceptable... completely stupid... tiresome...
> extremely insensitive... bad decision... even worse... wasting my
> time... arbitrary change... totally wrong... irksome tinkering...

etc. etc.

> What a shambles!

Never mind. Perhaps it's something to do with writing messages at 03:15
on a Sunday morning.

Robert
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Robert Duncan, Integral Solutions Ltd.             email: robd@isl.co.uk
School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences               tel: 01273 678881
University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK            fax: 01273 671320
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