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Subject: Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it
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erik quanstrom wrote:
>> Would you please start reading posts before replying to them?  The
>> only thing I have proposed is that people stop gratituously creating
>> programs which treat empty lists exceptionally.  If that is what you
>> mean by the paragraph above then I do try to implement it, and am
>> quite happy with the results.  But I think you mean something else.
>> You mean that I want to replace cat, rm, chmod etc. by programs which
>> adhere to this principle.  I've said several times that I am not
>> going to do this and that I think it would break too many things,
>> including most of my own shell scripts.
>
> i have read every message in this thread.  why accuse me
> of something you can't possibly know?
>
> i thought you were changing your position.  i guess that was
> wrong.  but can you blame me?  this thread goes around in
> circles with no possibility of any code being written or results.
> i was trying to gently suggest that this thread be
> suspended until somebody does something.
>
> - erik
>

Look at John's initial post on the thread, wherein he gave fair warning of his
intent and his target victim pool.

Took him just one day - despite time-zone differences - to demonstrate he could
do it - smart folks and vacuum-tube-CPU-age argument not withstanding.

Don't blame him.

We played his game.

Bill Hacker
(Fourth Buddhist...)