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Date:Mon Jun 27 17:46:25 1994 
Subject:Re: Name Space Pollution 
From:Rob MacLachlan 
Volume-ID:940628.01 

In article <2ug6b3$537@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk>,
Luc Beaudoin <L.P.Beaudoin@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>If there really is a user demand for the way Dylan currently
>proceeds, perhaps Dylan should provide a switch so that users' can
>control whether by default function names are protected or not.
>

Generic function variables are "read only" in Dylan, so implementations
would be strongly encouraged to complain if a generic function variable 
is clobbered.

  Rob