From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: builtins
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 20:37:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000510003709.7174.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Stephen Tell <tell@cs.unc.edu> of "Mon, 08 May 2000 19:25:25 EDT." <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005081920100.29426-100000@rukbat.cs.unc.edu>
My $0.02: if you have echo as a builtin, read deserves the same.
My other $0.02: echo needs a sibling builtin, quote, to enquote it's
arguments so that they can be read by the shell. Lisp got that right ages
ago. Inferno got it right more recently.
Followups to the es list, I guess. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-11 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2000-04-26 15:02 ` building rc on QNX4 Sam Roberts
2000-04-27 16:56 ` Scott Schwartz
2000-04-27 20:41 ` Sam Roberts
2000-04-28 7:28 ` vrl (was: Re: building rc on QNX4) Gert-Jan Vons
2000-04-28 18:38 ` Sam Roberts
2000-05-02 8:16 ` Gert-Jan Vons
2000-04-28 19:03 ` rc not session leader? Sam Roberts
2000-04-27 17:39 ` building rc on QNX4 Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-02 14:41 ` Tim Goodwin
2000-05-04 15:18 ` Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-08 8:29 ` Tim Goodwin
2000-05-08 8:58 ` Chris Siebenmann
2000-05-08 9:15 ` Tim Goodwin
2000-05-08 23:25 ` Stephen Tell
2000-05-10 0:37 ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
2000-05-12 7:22 ` builtins Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-08 11:50 ` building rc on QNX4 David Luyer
2000-05-08 13:28 ` Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-12 5:49 builtins Smarasderagd
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