[comp.lang.lisp] Abstraction vs representation

jwb@cepmax.ncsu.EDU (John W. Baugh Jr.) (03/13/90)

In article <2452@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>, utility@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca
(Ronald BODKIN) writes:
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> The issue gets more emphatic when
> people start to say "well I know that a window structure is just a list:
> (x y dx dy textcolor)" and rely on this kind of thing.
> 	Ron

Not unlike the way many oo people use slot names to define a "type."

John (donning my asbestos suit) Baugh