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From: rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Value patterns in BETA?
Date: 31 Jan 95 18:34:56
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Hi,
	In Sather I can create value classes whose instances are not 
heap allocated objects, a real win for scientific programming. Is there 
a way to do this for BETA, so that Complex and Interval patterns (for 
example) can be added? I don't think it can be done, from what I've 
read. If that is the case, I was wondering if some of the BETA wizards 
who dwell here could explain their omission. Was numerics deemed an 
unworthy domain in which to use BETA?

-- Brian