Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:55:02 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML1 cleanup patch |
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote:
> esr scripsit: > > > it needs is more overhead, and (2) interpreting symbols with leading digits > > as nonnumeric tokens is just *wrong*. Ugh. Violates the Principle of Least > > Surprise big-time. > > In fact this has come up before: in Usenet software, which has to > differentiate between an article and a sub-newsgroup. An article has > to have an all-numeric name, and It Would Have Been Nice if all > newsgroup names began with non-digits, but then there was > comp.bugs.4bsd.
What's wrong with using the _file type_ for these things ?
Conversely, why can't CML2 use the CONFIG_ prefix to determine if a symbol is a configuration option, like we're doing now?
Please do point out if I'm missing something, but I really fail to see what the fuss is about.
regards,
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