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I would like to boast that I have clearly solved an intractable problem, since (as I said) I have tools that happily track this very thing. But the truth is that the idea that it is intractable is rubbish, rather than that I can achieve impossible things before breakfast. (-:

You've switched tack between "not such a big deal" and "can't be solved" in the space of two messages. Both of your extremes are wrong. The truth is that this is simply difficult and needs either improvements to compilers or, as in my case, add-on tools that replicate the compiler's pre-processing and emit both the redo-ifchange and the redo-ifcreate information.



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