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Re: A plea for more pollution

From:
M.J.T. Guy
Date:
March 16, 2000 09:30
Subject:
Re: A plea for more pollution
Message ID:
E12Ve6a-0000m0-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk
Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> wrote
> Could we not simply grep *.[ch] for the names? It'd be a bit slow, I
> guess, so a DWIS flag might be useful to suppress it.

That's a *much* better idea than mine.    And we already have a DWIS
flag:  POLLUTE=1 or POLLUTE=0.

I doubt that the speed is a big issue in practice.   And if it is,
we could follow Tim's idea of just scanning for sv_yes, sv_no, sv_undef
and na, which would cover the vast majority of cases.


Mike Guy



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