[COFF] Other OSes?

[perry at piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger)]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 07:32:41 -0400 "Perry E. Metzger"
<perry at piermont.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 21:52:09 -0600 Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>
> wrote:
> > It would also let the program do 'noise
> > words' like TOPS-20 did w/o having to actually parse them...  
> 
> Noise words are a thing Unix is missing, but given the lack of
> CMND JSYS style completion, the reason for the lack is obvious --
> nothing generates noisewords so nothing needs to ignore them. This
> is yet another cool thing clang's --complete hack could make widely
> available, though then we'd need a standard for noisewords.

Actually, it occurs to me that noisewords aren't actually needed. The
printed help during completion can handle conveying the information
that noisewords provided.

Perry

> > clang --complete is an interesting variation on my ideas within
> > the realm of doing non-standard weird things and starts to place
> > the burden of knowledge on the program itself, which is more in
> > line with the thinking of Unix and the main stream of OOish
> > thought we've know about since the early 70s with smalltalk and
> > other such pioneering things.  
> 
> Precisely. The clang hack is exactly what one would want if it could
> be made popular.
> 
> Perry

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