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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 24 Mar 1997 02:22:39 +0100
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

> set-specifier tries to munge all kind of abominable things into
> the form add-spec-list-to-specifier wants to see.
[...]
> canonicalization function several layers down leaves the
> partially canonicalized list alone instead of converting it into
> a full rock-n-roll, tagged instantiator list.

Yup, I begin to see what's going on.  How about documenting this
lossage in the manual (and maybe in the docstring of `set-specifier').
There will probably be other people bitten by this in the future.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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