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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

On Sunday 17 December 2006 03:42, seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:
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> What I would do is accept your proposal for a multi_optional_* set of
> functions, but what I'd actually rather see is a single set of code for
> both single and multiple options.  If we're going to split them out into
> different functions they should get split in the grimoire libraries.
>
> Note that your function api proposal as it is can't be implemented
> because the arguments are ambiguous -- there's no simple way to tell how
> many spells are specified before the non-spell arguments arrive.
>
> Perhaps having all spells in a single argument, space-delimited would be
> forward and backwards compatible, and we wouldn't need to add any
> function names.

As you said we did indeed talk about this some months ago on the ML. The 
issue 
arose when I noticed that optional_depends accepted a space-delimited list of 
spells in a single argument. It was a bug that was promptly fixed, although I 
was hoping it could've been transformed into a feature. It really only worked 
by accident; some things were broken, e.g. the space-delimited list was added 
on a single line in /var/state/sorcery/depends.

> Andrew might have done some thinking on this issue already and might
> even be able to summaries where we're at with past discussions, so we
> should await his reply.

He did have his say, yes, and I trust he will now, too. :)

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        Juuso Alasuutari
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