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Date: Tue,  6 Oct 2009 07:50:14 -1000
From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it
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> You can build this whole dream using plan9 and show the world, you don't have
> to rewrite any of the utilities, just shape the calling convention to your
> liking.
[...]
> fn mkdir {

just write a single combinator that when applied to a command
makes it behave in the "no non-flag arguments == dont run" way.
Then its just:

     l0 cat $args
     l0 chmod +x $args
     ...

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/