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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:03:15 +0100
From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to move to rc from sh/bash
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* erik quanstrom (quanstro@quanstro.net) wrote:
> i would think that the reason to do this would be for consistency.  i
> don't know that that's a compelling argument.  but i can see the
> attraction of all or nothing; it would be nice if either none of the
> scripts used getflags or all of them did.
>
> - erik

That's actually quite compelling to me. I'd be just in favour of some kind
of `lazy evaluation' (if some script needs to be changed, put in getflags;
ditto for new ones.) And I admit that if one is really tght pressed on space
(which might still happen nowadays, if not nearly as often than a couple of
years ago) it won't really matter havin to put in some effort to customise
what's in /bin/rc. I'm still amused by the argument that getflags is faster,
though.

	Martin