From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] awk(1): quote argument for -v option
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 10:22:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ECF933E9-2630-44E3-9AFC-8F3A77069D35@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y4Yh7X6FS+rTnjhq@wopr>
On Nov 29, 2022, at 10:17 AM, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
>
> I submit as my actual argument that having documentation containing
> examples which, when copied and pasted into the primary UI of the
> project, do not work, is bad form. People read man pages to learn how
> to use shit, not to get a sense of the general aesthetic of a given
> command were we to run it on v7 Unix. The shit we say should work
> should work.
the fact that both examples do indeed work in all known environments is an important point, and i agree with the above as well.
i rescind my objection.
sl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-29 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-29 12:10 Anders Damsgaard
2022-11-29 13:47 ` qwx
2022-11-29 14:52 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-11-29 15:14 ` Kurt H Maier
2022-11-29 15:22 ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2022-11-29 16:24 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2022-11-29 16:28 ` Jacob Moody
2022-11-29 16:43 ` Kurt H Maier
2022-11-29 19:06 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-11-29 19:52 ` Stanley Lieber
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