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[Robert Figura <rfigura AT aubergine.zwischengesicht.de>]

Am Friday 18 August 2006 09:40 schrieb Juuso Alasuutari:

> Summary so far: cast works. What doesn't is storing depends info, and 
> that makes at least dispel, gaze, and cleanse uncooperative.

So it is a bug.

<philosophy>
Cool thing in programming is that you can change the language in which you 
are stating the solution, i.e. define a function which groups parameters 
which belong together to make the source readable and clutter free.

Cool thing in fixed formats on the other hand is that you don't redefine 
stuff. Read the specs and you can use automatic refactoring without 
hesitating.
</philosophy>

I personally think that as many spell filetypes should be as fixed as 
possible. But: It is indeed nice to have a concise format like putting a 
series of depends into a single statement, just like you discovered.

It seems like DEPENDS is indeed meant to contain code (please correct me on 
this one) so you could just write a wrapper function which does the right 
thing...

BTW: Did someone here refactoring of the DEPENDS? Are we better off 
considering DEPENDS as a fixed format?

Regards
  - Robert Figura

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