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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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> how far would "if you DEPENDS on FOO, and FOO is =m, you can only be =m or =n" get us?
> or are there hidden traps on this?
> (the hard case is if a non-tristate DEPENDS on a tristate, but... that's a trap anyway)
I guess it depends on the (use-)case. But in general I'd like a system 
like that, especially if it would spew out warnings and errors for cases 
like the one mentioned.