Derick Eddington <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 00:11 +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, I have some uses of `include' in
>> my own libraries; using (ported private include) from e.g. spells would
>> feel kind of dirty. I could imagine getting rid of `include' in spells,
>> but there might be people who prefer this style of separating the code
>> and the library metadata. 
>
> I wouldn't do that.  Keep using your own include for your own stuff.  I
> plan to do that.  I like that our personal collections explore
> differences.
>
>> Thus IMHO, it there would be merit in
>> providing such a basic tool as `include' in a public package, separate
>> from the `ported' collection of packages.
>
> There is merit in consolidated functionality, but as our different
> include libraries show, as well as more fundamental differences such as
> locating the files in some other way (e.g. relative to the including
> file, instead of searching the library search path), there's different
> ways to do it, and I don't want to take on The One Include Library to
> Rule Them All and Make Everyone Happy.
>
[...]

OK, I'm convinced now :-).

Rotty, heading towards bed
-- 
Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>

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