>>>>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Steve Long wrote:

> As I said; generality in lib functions seems like a useful thing.

Other ebuild variables are space separated lists, so why should DOCS
be an exception?

So far nobody has shown a real-life example of an existing ebuild that
could profit from the array syntax.

> There's a quote I read from what is imo a classic computing text[1]
> (from the 70s, never seen it referenced in any papers or anything):

> "Why do we never have time to do it right,
> but always plenty of time to do it over."

"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem."
 - Joh. Clauberg (1654)

Ulrich