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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Fri, 16 Apr 1993 05:42:16 MST
  2. Date: 12 Apr 93 13:45:14 GMT
  3. From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!ellis!goer@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Richard L. Goerwitz)
  4. Organization: University of Chicago
  5. Subject: Re: Icon rookie problems solved
  6. Message-Id: <1993Apr12.134514.27757@midway.uchicago.edu>
  7. References: <9304110123.AA29740@gremlin>
  8. Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
  9. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  10. Status: R
  11. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  12.  
  13. >>        s[upto(c,s)]
  14. >
  15. >The basic principle at work here is ``information hiding'', which assists
  16. >the programmer in localizing the effects of antipicated changes to the
  17. >design or implementation of a program.
  18.  
  19. I don't doubt your general principles.  Are you sure, though, that you would
  20. want to reduce expressions of the above size to procedure calls?  Especially
  21. when they are so easily and lucidly constructed?
  22.  
  23. -- 
  24.  
  25.    -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
  26.    goer@midway.uchicago.edu          rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
  27.