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copy message for Steppers
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- Subject: copy message for Steppers
 
- From: Eric Dean Tribble <tribble>
 
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 89 01:10:17 PDT
 
Opps.  Every Stepper must implement the copy message.  Remember
Steppers are supposed to be treated like variables.  Thus we should
almost never pass a pointer to a Stepper around (xLint??).  Instead,
pass a pointer to a copy.  MarkM observed that this let's us program
with promiscuous side-effects while maintaining a side-effect free
semantics!  
dean