** Reply to message from Charlie McDowell <charlie@...> on Sun, 01 Dec
2002 14:54:05 -0800

> I should be able to allow the programmer to edit the tangled version as
> well. They can in fact do this
> now by manually unfolding all of the macro invocations - it just isn't in a
> separate window.
> There may be some scaling/performance problems here eventually, but I'm
> trying not to let such
> things get in my way now. New chips will solve that problem right?

As you have probably already realised, one thing to watch is where a macro is
invoked in multiple places. If you edit the content of such a macro via the
tangled sources, it will have to cause multiple simultaneous changes in the
tangled files. Not impossible to do, but probably not trivial either. If you
ever allow parameterised macros (as FunnelWeb does), that will also make direct
editing of the tangled code trickier.

Cheers,
Tony.
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