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To:	Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: rc 1.6 $version 
In-Reply-To: Message from Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk> 
   of "Thu, 04 Apr 2002 05:04:45 EST." <20020404100445.8968.qmail@happy.star.le.ac.uk> 
Date:	Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:42:34 -0500
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>

| > Why not just initialize version (provided there's none set in the
| > environment?), not export it, and have any assignments turn it into a
| > normal variable.  I think that's pretty easy to do.
| 
| OK, after a couple of iterations I've now done exactly that.

I dunno.  In that case calling it rc_version makes more sense to me.
Less likely to have accidental collisions.