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From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-15 18:45:14
[2003-11-15] David Abrahams wrote:
>Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> Oops pressed wrong button, hopefully only one copy of this email will
show
>> up :-)
>>
>> [2003-11-15] David Abrahams wrote:
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>>>Is there some reason we are invoking common-names immediately via
>>>
>>> [ common-names ]
>>>
>>>instead of just taking advantage of the ability to write:
>>>
>>> common-names
>>>
>>>in the requirements?
>>
>> I remember I had one, but I can't remember what it was. So now I'd say no
>> there isn't one ;-)
>
>It does end up sticking another function in the requirements, but it
>seems that could just be called directly. Would you be willing to
>make the change to common-names so we can reduce the syntactic
>overhead? Also, could we pick a less-generic name for this,
>something like common-variant-tags?
Yes to both questions :-)
I'm in Windows land for now so I won't get to it until late tonight or
tomorrow.
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