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Subject: Re: LIB_DEPENDS
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 01:54:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Adam David" <adam@veda.is>
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In-Reply-To: <199602150140.RAA02544@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Satoshi Asami" at Feb 14, 96 05:40:01 pm
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>  * Ah, okay...  good point.
>  * So, would it make sense to tidy up the output by stripping "\." to "." before
>  * displaying it? It's ugly how it stands.
> 
> Yeah it's sort of ugly but I don't see the need to hide from the user
> what's really going on.  I don't think it's confusing either, so I'm
> inclined to let it stay the way it is....
> 
> Satoshi

Yes... on second thoughts, it might look confusing without the "\" when
actual regexps are used. Better left how it is, but it looks rather odd
for the most common case.

Adam