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On 10/11/06, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> wrote:
> Not an issue for me. It's an issue for random people writing scripts,
> for people using command line things and for people who don't want to
> use a full parser framework for some quick hack. There's no need to
> make things harder for random developers here.

Wouldn't a resolver API be the better approach to solving that?  We're
not here to support x-random number of independent, unofficial
implementations of atom parsers.

Best regards,
Stu
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