From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:59:23 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <8da9527c16791e33118a1d065d2735b8@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <<200910060740.aa94573@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>> References: <<200910060740.aa94573@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it Topicbox-Message-UUID: 80857132-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > There are a lot basic UNIX/p9 utilities which treat empty lists > inconsistently. It would be nice if there were fewer, but you > can't arrange that without breaking many things. the beauty is that these utilities do inconsistent things, and therefore are not easily confused. we're arguing that birds, mammals and fish should all have the same number of legs. let's hope there are no centipeds. - erik