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On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Will Andrews wrote:

> Unfortunately, adding code for FLAVORS and friend is extremely
> nontrivial.  I looked into that a few times, and we would need to
> more or less rewrite the whole functionality... and doing so in
> make-ese is difficult, to say the least.

Flavors? You are not talkign about the old object oriented lisp system, 
are you?

/Andreas

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