>> -I thought it would be interesting if a target knew how to "clean"
>> itself up.
>
>Clean up in which situation? Always, if a task that is enclosed in it
>fails (if so, the clean up will probably depend on the task that
>failed), if any other thing fails after this target has been executed?
>
>We might be setting wrong expectations if we did something like this.

I'm not sure what I was really thinking here... Just something like the rule
in C++ programming, any class that needs either a constructor, destructor,
copy constructor or ???(been a while) needs all 4. A target that knows how
to "build" itself could also know how to "clean" itself.

Paul

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