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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I discussed this hack with Neil and Josh in Ottawa back in May. I
> took a stab at it a few weeks ago and below are the results. It is
> mostly modeled after the existing inline_function. The approach taken
> is to recursively cleanup the rtable.
>
> I've been testing this in our dev environment for a few weeks now.
> I'm sure it still has issues but I think it is about as clean as I can
> get it without help from a wider audience. This is my first backend
> patch so please be gentle.
>
> I want to thank Neil for answering many of my supremely ignorant
> questions on IRC.
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