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From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)
Subject: Re: Logical operations on integers.
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 18:15:18 GMT

Listening to this discussion of what to call logand gave me a thought:
why not set up some sort of central registry of extensions? This
registry could be organized as a file of entries, in the same format as
R^nRS. The first person to design a particular extension would then
document it in entry format, and submit it to the registry. Other
implementors could then look at the registry, and implement those
extensions they find to their taste. There would be no connotation of
compliance in the registry; implementors would be free to select or
reject, or even to change as they see fit, any specification they find
therein. However, it would ensure that people didn't simply invent new
syntax for things capriciously.

Am I being hopelessly idealistic? 

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