
      ever want to do it? The committee eventually worked it out and came up with
      an answer to the question. (Just so you don't have to skip ahead to the end,
      the answer is "no.") But the question is much more interesting than
      the answer: it points to a useful, and insufficiently discussed, programming
      technique. The standard library doesn't directly support that technique, but
      the two can be made to coexist.</em></span></span>&#8221;</span>
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