[TUHS] Proliferation of options is great simplification of pipes, really?
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Tue Feb 23 03:15:52 AEST 2021
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:17 AM Robert Clausecker <fuz at 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 at ccil.org
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