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                9 Feb
                
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                5:37 p.m.
            
        On Feb 8, 2008 5:14 PM, Stefan Monnier 
How 'bout treating :+ as similar to `append' rather than similar to `cons'? Basically treat :+ as taking 2 numbers (rather than a number and a digit).
Interpreting it like that would certainly make make more sense. But again, I think that :* should be interpreted just as an unavoidable syntactical annoyance without meaning or interpretation.