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Date:Mon Jun 30 15:21:28 1993 
Subject:Re: Not a bug but a feature? 
From:Richard Caley 
Volume-ID:930630.09 

> That's because the standard matcher uses "valof" applied to the
> words in the pattern list.

The way to make the matcher intoa really useful tool would be to make
it a first class part of the language. "matches" and ---> would need
to be known to the compiler and a pattern would be a special kind of
thing rather than just a list which is interpreted at run time.

      ^_^
     (O O) 
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		- RJC