From: Jeff Dalton
Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <Cvx5pK.n17@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In article <··········@belfort.daimi.aau.dk> ·····@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Villumsen) writes:
>rodrigo vanegas <··@cs.brown.edu> writes:
>
>>In article <··········@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, ······@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bruno Haible) writes:
>
>>> 4. PROGN, LET, Lisp closures, list objects, defstruct objects, CLOS instances
>>>    all correspond to "pattern"s.
>
>>So what are these "patterns" anyway?  It sounds as if they are very
>>close if not identical to lisp closures.  After all, can't each of the
>>above lisp stuff can be implemented as sugar for closures.  
>
>I've posted a response to comp.lang.beta.
>I can also mail it to anyone interested.

This annoys me big time.  Why not post the reply to the newsgroups
that contained the original article?