On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 07:13:08PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: > BTW, I've finally found a fine example of situation parallel to Git: > TeX! There are the core TeX commands (plumbing) and plain TeX (basic > porcelain) on top of that as well as a bunch of other macro sets (other > porcelains). Now I need to dig out The TeXbook from wherever I've put it > to see how did Knuth deal with it, documentation-wise. Gahh! Please don't use TeX as an example. As far as I know, TeX doesn't offer lexical scope. Hence, action-at-a-distance is commonplace which makes program execution extremely difficult for mere mortals to predict. I am constantly amazed at popularity of TeX, in spite of its grave deficiencies. Perhaps there isn't a good alternative yet. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html