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In article <200001031941.TAA28429@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, oleg@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >For another thing, substring is codified to be a procedure whose >result is a first-class value. No such promises have been made about >the XS>< notation. But we DO WANT it do return a first-class value, otherwise we promote writing ugly code.