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Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by shiro on Friday July 06, 2007 @05:21PM (#32847)
> 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?

Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator by pg on Friday July 06, 2007 @07:01PM (#32864)
Right. (It was a revealing slip. I've already started thinking of indexable stuff as like functions.)