Re: [9fans] a bit OT, programming style question

[Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

> No, bash's completion system is what's responsible for line numbers in
> the thousands.

How? Is bash's completion on your system different than on my system? I'd
like you to substantiate that statement and will thank you for a proper
response.

--On Friday, April 10, 2009 3:33 PM -0400 "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> It only starts to balloon once you begin customizing bash.
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>> Have you customized your bash by aliases as long as tens or hundreds of
>> lines? Now is it bash's fault you have defined an alias for something
>> that ought to be a script/program in its own right?
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> No, bash's completion system is what's responsible for line numbers in
> the thousands.
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>> --On Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:34 PM -0400 "J.R. Mauro"
>> <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> No, it's very likely bigger. wc -l is lines of course, and I'm
>>>> guessing each line is more than 1 character. However,
>>>>
>>>> $ set | wc -l
>>>> 64
>>>>
>>>> I don't quite get that locally.
>>>
>>> It only starts to balloon once you begin customizing bash. I'm not
>>> sure how rc handles functions, but the nice thing about zsh is that it
>>> compiles them to bytecode instead of this insanity that bash employs.
>>>
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