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>>>>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Steve Long wrote: |
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> As I said; generality in lib functions seems like a useful thing. |
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Other ebuild variables are space separated lists, so why should DOCS |
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be an exception? |
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So far nobody has shown a real-life example of an existing ebuild that |
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could profit from the array syntax. |
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> There's a quote I read from what is imo a classic computing text[1] |
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> (from the 70s, never seen it referenced in any papers or anything): |
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> "Why do we never have time to do it right, |
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> but always plenty of time to do it over." |
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"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem." |
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- Joh. Clauberg (1654) |
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Ulrich |
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