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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> >  Sure CML2 fixes some bits that are not easily fixed in CML1,
> >  but I wonder sometimes how much of it is/was fixable.
> 
> Pretty much all of it. I wrote a proof of concept parser that can deduce
> the set of rules that must be enforced and what must be changed when you
> hit an option

Alan.  It didn't work.  It couldn't have -- among other things, the old
language can't tell visibility from implication.
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