From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or a feature?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:40:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206131740.NAA26006@math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:01:53 EDT." <dbd76fb1c636210fa6c0c37968c4b35f@plan9.bell-labs.com>
> > (And while we're at it, can we add ``else'' to Plan 9 rc?)
>
> i was hoping someone would add if not to unix rc.
Why? `if not' is a hack, even according to td's rc paper, which has this
to say about it:
The one bit of large-scale syntax that Bourne unquestionably
does better than rc is the if statement with else clause.
The rationale is explained in the following paragraphs, but apparantly,
Unix rc has fixed that. Indeed, the specific example given in td's
paper is handled in a reasonable way.
btw- there seems to be a problem with the html version of the rc paper
on the Bell Labs web site; my browser shows the latter half in italics.
- Dan C.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-13 1:01 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 17:40 ` Dan Cross [this message]
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2002-07-27 20:30 Byron Rakitzis
2002-07-27 12:10 presotto
2002-07-27 2:43 Byron Rakitzis
2002-06-13 23:05 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 23:23 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-13 20:35 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 20:58 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-13 21:34 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2002-06-13 3:41 Russ Cox
2002-06-12 23:49 Geoff Collyer
2002-06-13 0:07 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-13 0:31 ` Pavel Mihaylov
2002-06-13 2:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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2002-06-12 19:57 ` Dennis Ritchie
2002-06-12 20:16 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-06-12 19:52 andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-12 21:57 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-12 22:53 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-14 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-14 16:23 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-12 9:15 forsyth
2002-06-13 9:29 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-11 15:32 Russ Cox
2002-06-11 15:29 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-11 21:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-11 21:19 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-06-12 5:17 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-12 8:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-11 15:26 andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-11 15:14 andrey mirtchovski
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