From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1239120334.6482.5.camel@katy-laptop> References: <1239082320.2778.20.camel@katy-laptop> <13426df10904070808u6b82305dq820eb19f994015e@mail.gmail.com> <1239120334.6482.5.camel@katy-laptop> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:44:08 -0700 Message-ID: <13426df10904070944v4cea25e4m3944ba8bbd1ca108@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] a bit OT, programming style question Topicbox-Message-UUID: d4f1016a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Corey wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 08:08 -0700, ron minnich wrote: >> you could break out re expansion into a separate program :-) >> >> ron >> > > Exactly, and the end user can choose to have a re or glob expansion > program, rather than having to muck up the shell code with different > flags or whatever. somebody is going to jump in very soon and tell us why this is funny :-) ron