On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:06:40PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Hmm... perhaps... but it will be easy to add later.
>  
> | - add a CopyFloat tag
> 
> This as well


Actually I am not sure about the utility of these 'copy layout' (and the
proposed 'copz float') feature at all.

Together with the include feature it adds a complexity to .layout files
that is not really necessary as far as I am concerned. For writing layouts
typing 'CopyFloat' is not much less work than actually copzing a few lines
and the .lazout files without 'external' dependencies are much easier to
tweak. I.e. if I create some foo.layout and somebody else derives a
bar.layout from it and I 'fix' foo.layout, I might break his bar.layout
without keven knowing that this exists.

I think this is one of the rare cases where 'code' duplication is better
than 'reuse'.

André


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