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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Proliferation of options is great simplification of pipes, really?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:15:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_SA_B=skqEgN68dDFRz=ZcJUJD5xh9MGxbqMB+k=vLzqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YDPX3sDuIQzjCrXL@fuz.su>

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On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:17 AM Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su> wrote:


> I'm not sure if it would be that simple.  With preprocessors like
> soelim, your script would have to be able to open arbitrary external
> files to find out what preprocessors are needed.  And perhaps other
> preprocessors too could trigger dependencies on additional
> preprocessors depending on how they are used.
>

True enough, but you'd be no better off in principle if you were using an
explicit pipeline, especially if you are sourcing files that you didn't
write: your knowledge of the content may be vague.



John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
Heckler: "Go on, Al, tell 'em all you know.  It won't take long."
Al Smith: "I'll tell 'em all we *both* know.  It won't take any longer."

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-22 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-22  2:34 Will Senn
2021-02-22  3:32 ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-02-22  4:32   ` Dan Stromberg
2021-02-22  4:34   ` Will Senn
2021-02-22  5:45     ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-02-22 15:49   ` John P. Linderman
2021-02-22 15:57     ` William Cheswick
2021-02-22 16:03       ` John P. Linderman
2021-02-22 21:16         ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-02-22 16:02     ` Warner Losh
2021-02-22 16:12     ` Robert Clausecker
2021-02-22 17:15       ` John Cowan [this message]
2021-02-23  0:24       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-22 21:14     ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-02-22  7:20 ` Rich Morin
2021-02-22 18:27 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-22 19:30   ` Richard Salz
2021-02-23  2:47 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-23 10:42 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2021-02-23 13:23   ` Brantley Coile
2021-02-23 13:49 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-02-23 15:04 Steve Simon
2021-02-24  2:42 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-24 19:38 Norman Wilson

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