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From: asente@decwrl.DEC.COM
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Subject: Re: A couple of comments on the Intrinsics document
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Date: 7 Jan 88 19:36:57 GMT
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(1) The gyrations done by the inheritance routines are necessary to
prevent an infinite loop when inheriting a routine that is itself the
same inherit routine.  Without it, you would just keep calling the
Inherit routine over and over.  I agree that it is poorly described,
and this should improve soon.  Also, the entire mechanism by which
inheritance is done is currently under review and is likely to change.

(2) I fail to understand your objections to the command line parsing. 
Could you explain in what way this is an "ill-conceived, nonstandard,
and incompatible argument-processing philosophy"?

	-paul asente