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+A generic operator system connects the application of a generic procedure on
+multiple arguments to the "appropriate" procedure for those specific arguments
+based on type predicates.
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+Our problem is to take an individual object (/not/ in the object-oriented
+sense of the word, but in the s-expression sense of the word) and determine
+the set of procedures which /could/ be applied to it based on type predicates
+and present these options interactively to the user in a useful manner.
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+[Various optimizations to this process will be discussed]
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+We will consider and demonstrate this system in the domains of a) the R5RS
+Scheme builtin types and procedures and b) the scmutils types and special
+procedures for mathematics and physics. Our "range" for these domains will
+be an interactive REPL environment (or just text interaction?) and a GTK 
+graphical user interface.
+
+Other domains this system could be applied to include:
+    random correctness or unit testing of complex systems
+    automatically generated generic user interfaces
+
+Related problems (which could be covered by this work?):
+    chaining procedures (eg if f maps A->B and g maps B->C, then gof maps
+        A->C which might be what we want
+    some kind