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* What is the type tag? When can it be useful?
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* When are tags for abstract data stripped off and when are attached?
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* What is the dispatching on type? Why isn't this approach additive?
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* What is the data-directed programming? Why does this approach require the global mutable table?
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* What is the data-directed programming?
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* Why does data-directed approach help us to avoid procedure names conflict?
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* How does `apply-generic` function from this chapter work?
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* What is the message-passing approach?
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* Can you explain the idea of Generic Operations?
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* Why are two-level tags used in the example of the generic arithmetic operations package?
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* Why is implementing each procedure for each possible type combination cumbersome?
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* What is a problem with implementing procedures for all possible combinations of types?
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* When such approach is the best way to create generic operations?
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* What is the coercion?
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* What are a hierarchy of types, a subtype and a supertype?
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* Why a tower of types is the simplest case of the hierarchies of types?
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* What advantage does a tower of types have as a particular case of hierarchies of types for implementing generic operations?
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* How can type raising help in cross-type generic operations?
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* Why does coercing through raising become hard for types with multiple supertypes?
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* How can we determine that we can safely coerce to a lower type?

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