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Re: RFC: new syntax for inline patches


From: Attila Lendvai
Subject: Re: RFC: new syntax for inline patches
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 08:16:44 +0000

i may be lacking the necessary bird's eye view here... but why not just use 
good old copy-pasted diff for this?

introducing extra complexity in the form of a new DSL has all kinds of costs 
that people usually ignore (*), and it's not clear to me how those costs would 
pay off compared to just copy-pasting a small diff into the package declaration.

* lack of tooling; more opportunity for bugs; the ((line 10) (+ ...)) DSL is 
more fragile to upstream changes, etc)

sure, diff would be more verbose and arguably less aesthetic, but it's much 
easier on the brain of the coders, and is less fragile, too. and larger patches 
could go through the current, convoluted local.mk way.

- attila
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