On Mar 19, 2010, at 3:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Instead of these lines, you should just clear the distfiles variable, like
> this:
>
> distfiles
I don't know about you guys, but I find what is essentially a key/value pair
without a value to be somewhat harder to read. "What's that line do??" would
be my first reaction, even if I knew that no arguments was essentially
equivalent to the NULL set being passed. Elsewhere, of course, the convention
is to say "use_foo no", which certainly parses reasonably well even if the
rules for when a use_foo is permissible/available are somewhat unclear.
Perhaps this is a good opportunity to fix that? "use_distfiles no" would
certainly be more readable, or we could introduce a new "ignore" procedure
perhaps.. ("ignore distfiles").
- Jordan
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