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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:55:02 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML1 cleanup patch
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote:

> esr scripsit:
> 
> > it needs is more overhead, and (2) interpreting symbols with leading digits
> > as nonnumeric tokens is just *wrong*.  Ugh.  Violates the Principle of Least
> > Surprise big-time.
> 
> In fact this has come up before: in Usenet software, which has to
> differentiate between an article and a sub-newsgroup.  An article has
> to have an all-numeric name, and It Would Have Been Nice if all
> newsgroup names began with non-digits, but then there was
> comp.bugs.4bsd.

What's wrong with using the _file type_ for these things ?

Conversely, why can't CML2 use the CONFIG_ prefix to
determine if a symbol is a configuration option, like
we're doing now?

Please do point out if I'm missing something, but I
really fail to see what the fuss is about.

regards,

Rik
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