On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 14:29:41 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Here's the important bit, which I shall prefix with some stars: > > > > *** The point of DEPENDENCIES is not to replace n variables with one > > *** variable. > > Yes, it is.
You've clearly either completely missed the point of all of this, despite it being pointed out to you, or are just trying to cause trouble. Whilst you may be thinking of a DEPENDENCIES proposal that is about replacing n variables with one variable (and I've never seen such a proposal being made), what we're discussing here is not that. Kindly stay out of this discussion until you understand what it is we're discussing. > These are the rules for a machine. People don't actually read > dependencies sequentially. Provide a good algorithm which works from > any position. Read backwards from the current position until you find a label. It's the same algorithm you use to find out what the current section is when you're reading an article. > The algorithm you presented above was technicality as well. Agreed, but it was explicitly requested by Brian, so I provided it. > So, now that your forked the thread ...as requested by Brian... > shall we repeat all the disadvantages which you love to forgot to > mention? No, please stay out of this until you understand the original proposal, and in particular the parts marked with ***. So long as you don't understand what we're discussing, I'm afraid any contributions you make will simply be shouting and waving. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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