Re: Attributes 'Version and 'Body_Version

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

This may not be news: I often want what is, in fact, impossible. :-)

But so far, I don't think what I want has been shown to *be* impossible. If
the compiler is somehow or other capable of determining that the string for
'*Version needs to be *different* then how is it impossible to be sure that
the next string chosen satisfies the semantics: New_String > Old_String ???

If the relationship only has the meaning: "This version was compiled at a
later time than the previous version" and you make no other use of it beyond
that, then I don't think doing so is impossible or undesirable. It enables
you to use the version string in manners perhaps not originally contemplated
by its original designers. That's not necessarily A Bad Thing.

MDC
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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> I think what Marin wants is not possible.
>
> Otherwise I would want it also.