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Re: LAST CALL for SRFI-113, Sets and bags

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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Per Bothner <per@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 08/18/2014 03:38 PM, John Cowan wrote:
Kevin Wortman scripsit:

"hysterical raisins" should be "historical reasons" right?

It's a joke:  see <http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.html>

It's a rather obscure in-joke.  I'd change it to a link.

Seconded, a link would be nice, esp. since some people consider pejorative uses of "hysterical" to be sexist.

Kevin Wortman