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In-Reply-To: <199701280836.RAA18619@lenlen.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> from HOSOKAWA Tatsumi at "Jan 28, 97 05:36:44 pm"
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HOSOKAWA Tatsumi stands accused of saying:
> In article <199701280501.OAA16760@lenlen.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>
>  writes:
> 
> >> I personally think that writing parser in yacc is not difficult, and I
> >> wrote yesterday's example only in a few hours.  I also posted this
> >> example in local hacker's mailing list and I got some advices.  I'm
> >> fixing the problems and extending the syntax to incorporate requested
> >> features.
> 
> FYI: requested features I want to introduce.
> 
> 1. The abilty to describe "why A depends on B, or why A can't coexist
>    with B".

That's easy, an "excludes" attribute, eg. :

option "FOO" {
...
	excludes {option BAR}
	excludes {device barbar}
...
}


> 2. PnP support.

Er.?  How does PnP support figure here?

> HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi

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