Another H'98 Report query

[Fergus Henderson]

On 31-Jan-2002, Malcolm Wallace <Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
>     The subordinate names c_i (f_i) must not contain duplicates.
> 
> Yet later in the text it is stated that
> 
>     Exports lists are cumulative: the set of entities exported by an
>     export list is the union of the entities exported by the individual
>     items of the list.
> 
> I see no reason to disallow duplicates at the subordinate level if
> they are permitted otherwise.

Well, disallowing duplicates here may improve error detection,
catching some unintentional typos and cut-and-paste errors.

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