[cricket-users] Preload node

[Kiss Gabor (Bitman)]

I wonder what is the concept of "preload node"
in case of "--default--" target.

File lib/ConfigTree/Node.pm, method parseLines():

my($node);
if ($token eq 'target') {
if ($name eq '--default--') {
if ($self->Done()) {
if (! $self->Preload()) {
$self->Debug("Making a preload node.");
$self->Preload(new ConfigTree::Node);
}
$node = $self->Preload();
$self->Debug("Using a preload node.");
} else {
$node = $self;
}
} else {

I can see that if the parser finds a second (third etc.)
"target --default--" stanza at the same level it passes the content
to the child node directly instead of normal inheritance mechanism.
But why?
Why --default-- targets are not simply merged?
(I want to mix manually maintained and machine generated config files
both containing "target --default--".)

Could somebody explain what was JRA's idea? :-)

Gabor