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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> Since the information is there in CML1 to generate the list of constraints
> for any given option,

False assumption...

>                    its a reasonable assertion that the entire CML2
> language rewrite is self indulgence from a self confessed language invention
> freak.

leading to a false result.

If you want to refute me, build it yourself.  You'll get a valuable learning
experience.  At the end of it, I'll have earned your apology.  Not that I
expect to get it.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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