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Re: a syntax for multitarget rules
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Paul Smith |
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Re: a syntax for multitarget rules |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:29:32 -0500 |
On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 20:16 +0000, Tim Murphy wrote:
> Perhaps another 10 years can go by while everyone debates the perfect
> combination of ascii characters to implement a very useful feature.
> Then we can all know deep in our hearts that all the egregious hacks
> we had to engineer to work around the lack of this feature were at
> last worth it. All the hours of headaches and weird constructs with
> various fatal flaws will have been justified because XXYYZ looks nice
> finally.
>
> I apologise for that but i had to get it off my chest.
As far as I'm concerned it's not the lack of exact syntax that's the
problem. The syntax issues are relatively trivial to solve/change.
It's someone actually doing the rest of the implementation that's the
problem.