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Fri Oct 17 12:12:45 EDT 2003

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    Greg> What you're proposing hijacks the indexing syntax and uses it to
    Greg> mean something completely different from indexing, which is a much
    Greg> bigger change, and potentially a very confusing one.

    Greg> So, no, sorry, it doesn't overcome my objection!

I agree.  Any expression bracketed by '[' and ']', no matter how many other
clues to the ultimate result it might contain, ought to result in a list as
far as I'm concerned. 

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