On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Because you need to specify a search method for host lists; why you
> don't need to specify a search method for net lists I don't know, it
> would make things more consistent.
Because I haven't yet figured out a sensible way to implement some kind
of keyed lookup for net lists. It's something that has been on the Wish
List for some time, and I ought to get round to it. The current file
facility in effect interpolates the contents of the file into the list,
which is different to the way lookups work for hosts.
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