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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-06 10:51:47


"Johan Nilsson" <r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> I guess making one rule explicit by
>> default and
>> then adding a new mechanism to make it back implicit is not very
>> attractive design solution.
>
> Agreed. I guess I'm advocating having the "test" target implicit as it
> should be easy enough to add an "explicit test" statement somewhere. I'm
> sure less test-infected users will disagree, though ...

I think it's easy enough to add "explicit" that uniformity outweighs
ease-of-use in this case. I guess I vote for implicit also.

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