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Eric S. Raymond wrote:


> Keith has pointed out a weakness in the language -- there's no way to make
> the default value of a choices menu dependent on the architecture (an issue
> for things like kcore format).  I am meditating on this.


Suggestion: allow a derived symbol as the default.  It must be possible
to prove that the value of this symbol is going to be one of the
choices.

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