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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: pragma/aspect Import, Convention parameters
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 16:40:35 -0500
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"Shark8" <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Friday, August 14, 2015 at 2:30:29 PM UTC-6, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>> Right. It *is* a hell of a lot of maintenance -- that goes with the
>> territory -- and no one wants to build tools that help. (Conventional
>> version control is actively harmful in this, and the C "solution" of a
>> preprocessor is a guaranteed trip to unmaintainable spagetti code.) Of
>> course, it's possible that one *cannot* write a usable tool that would 
>> help
>> (I wasn't able to solve the problem adequately for our own use, and I 
>> have
>> tried).
>
> I don't know, it sounds kind of like (tangentially, albeit) something that 
> Wulf's IDL would address?  I'm actually starting work on something that 
> could address this issue... but I would love to get your opinion/input.

Dunno. Do you have a reference to "Wulf's IDL"?

                      Randy.