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,
Rik
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