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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Patrick Mochel wrote:

> It is really nice, but it's too much for the common case. The goal is to 
> have each file export one and only one value. Setting up an iterator is 
> overkill for one value.

You don't have to use the iterator side of that.

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