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-#lang racket
-
-(require racket/fixnum
-         racket/flonum)
-
-
-;; the point of this file is to provide functions that are labeled
-;; as unsafe but are actually safe.  This provides an easy means to
-;; disable unsafety; a require of racket/unsafe/ops can be replaced
-;; with a require of racket/unsafe/safe-ops. 
-
-;; this list is almost certainly incomplete; I feel partially justified
-;; in adding it to the tree anyhow because 
-;; a) it's easy to extend, and
-;; b) it appears to me (based on the require of #%unsafe in the corresponding
-;;     'ops' library) that determining the full set of functions will require
-;;     mucking around in the C source, and not being very confident about 
-;;     my conclusions.
-
-
-(provide (prefix-out unsafe- (all-from-out racket/fixnum))
-         (prefix-out unsafe- (all-from-out racket/flonum))
-         (prefix-out unsafe- (combine-out vector-length
-                                          vector-ref
-                                          vector-set!)))
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