On Sunday, Jun 15, 2003, at 12:45 US/Eastern, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Deliberately obfusticated or encrypted forms and program-generated formsare *not* preferred forms for making modifications.
Program-generated forms can become the preferred form. Its certainly possible to use something like glade, for example, to generate skeleton code then fill it in.
Or, more weirdly, people do hack up "configure", flex/bison output, etc.