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On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:22:52 -0500, Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect-
technologies.com> wrote:
>
> The data type provides additional information about the data. You can
> feel free to discard this information if you don't need it, or to use it
> to reinterpret the data, or to use the data as is.
I for one am not arguing that types are a Bad Thing. On the other hand,
"additional information" is not unambiguously a Good Thing -- those
additional details can bedevil you. For example, the additional
information becomes a serious constraint on
*modifying* a document even if it can be ignored when *reading*
a document.
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