Norman Gray wrote:
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> I have no strong opinions about the defaulting mechanism, but if
> there's talk of a replacement or alternative for the parameter
> system, written in Java, might users not expect this sort of thing to
> be handled by the built-in preferences system?
I think that, for a large software system, people would quite reasonably
expect it to "do it its own way"!
The current parameter system with VPATH, PPATH, indirection and backups of
values in HDS files has, however, always seems more than was needed in most
cases!
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