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		shiro on July 6, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.yc... > constant when called as a function simply returns itself. I thought a sequence at a procedure position acted like aref, e.g. ("abc" 1) => #\b, right? So the automatic promotion of constant to constant-function occurs only for non-aggregate types?

pg on July 6, 2007 [–]

Right. (It was a revealing slip. I've already started thinking of indexable stuff as like functions.)

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