Loop in AS macro

Please don't say 'include'. - What about "expand" as Shane used it already?

So think about a macro as a set of AS'es and only form the set union of it.
Every AS should be a set of size 1 and a macro a set of size n.
As a result you would get an infinite iteration but A = B!

So if somebody would suggest it to be nonsense, what about Pi etc.?
;-))

I think a script has only to expand a macro and to insert it into a list of already expanded macros.
...

Christian

-----Original Message-----
From:	Gilles Farrache [SMTP:farrache at cc.in2p3.fr]
Sent:	Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:17 PM
To:	Shane Kerr
Cc:	Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet; farrache at cc.in2p3.fr; db-wg at ripe.net; routing-wg at ripe.net; Henk.Uijterwaal at ripe.net; farrache at cc.in2p3.fr; Jesper Skriver
Subject:	Re: Loop in AS macro 

Shane and al,

When I was at school (a long time ago) I learn what was called the "set theory" (
"Theorie des ensembles" in French) that was part of what was called the NEW Mathematics.
In those courses I learned that :

If set A is included in set B and if set B was included in set A then A = B.

Whet your telling me is that there are New New mathematics (as there is a new economy)
in which :

if set A is included in set B and set B included in set A that does not implie A = B.

I am very interrested by that theory and will be happy that you give me some pointers
to it. :-)

Or what is an AS-MACRO ? It is a set of AS (or a set of set of AS ....). So they
have to follow the set theory.



Gilles