>>>>> 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