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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

On Friday 18 August 2006 10:30, seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:
> What kind of behavior do you want, that a single prompt supports both, or
> two separate ones?
>
> Is it single-pole double-throw or double-pole double-throw?

This figure of speech I'm afraid I don't understand. What I'd like to see is 
the possibility to optionally depend on several spells with a single prompt, 
but I take it you already know this much. I'm probably missing the point of 
your question, could you please clarify?

> As with any misfeature, it's good to make sure it's really operating
> desirably.
>
> Personally, I see little reason to support this feature.

I do see use for it (as do apparently some others who've replied to this 
thread). One example is what I mentioned in an earlier posting. Basically 
every spell that now has the clumsy 'config_query VAR; if [[ $VAR == y ]]; 
then depends x; depends, y; depends z; fi' procedure would benefit.

My knowledge about Sorcery's internals is vague and I might be 
over-simplifying, but I'm guessing that this accidental feature wouldn't 
require too much work to become actually usable.

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        Juuso Alasuutari
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