On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:02:31PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   sorry, i didn't mean to pick on you. :-)  i would avoid that kind of
> extreme optimization for a couple reasons.

No problem :)

>   also, it's sort of just a fluke that you can do that kind of
> optimization.  the instant you add another suffix that starts with
> something other than a "b", it messes things up and you lose the
> advantage.

Right, at first glance such a little code is not understood instantly.
foo.{bbclass,bbappend,bb} is more natural for suffixes.

>   anyway, i will leave this in the hands of folks higher up the food
> chain.

I'm sending V2 of the patch. 

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