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From: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] awk: add %q format for quoted strings (see quote(2))
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 22:29:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25B459CD-CDDC-4BB1-BDC4-221B722A4947@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b7fd75a-c7f2-476a-8872-aa42e6d07eb0@www.fastmail.com>


i see why you would want this but the argument against it was always to keep the plan9 version of awk compatible with Brian’s one-true-awk so awk code is truely portable.

how much hassle is portability worth? good question.

-Steve


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-13  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-11 21:24 james palmer
2021-08-12 21:29 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2021-08-18 13:23   ` james palmer
2021-08-24  9:45     ` [9front] " Pavel Renev
2021-08-13  6:43 ` unobe
2021-08-18 13:10   ` james palmer
2021-08-23 16:55 ` ori
2021-08-24  4:31   ` ori

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