From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fw.softwell.se ([193.15.236.45]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <26294>; Wed, 17 May 2000 16:54:15 -0400 Received: from trillian.softwell.se (IDENT:bengt@trillian.softwell.se [192.42.172.11]) by fw.softwell.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA20009; Tue, 16 May 2000 13:22:45 +0200 Received: (from bengt@localhost) by trillian.softwell.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA29930; Tue, 16 May 2000 13:22:45 +0200 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 07:22:45 -0400 From: Bengt Kleberg Message-Id: <200005161122.NAA29930@trillian.softwell.se> To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, tjg@star.le.ac.uk Subject: Re: ifs substitution, how should it work? Re: ifs substitution, how should it work? > What would you expect > ; ifs=(' ' '' ' ' > to do (where `' represents a literal tab)? I had but seen code with lists as ifs arguments, and therefore thought that rc was using lists. Ie, I would have written it as: ; ifs=(' ' '' ' ') Would it create much trouble to change rc :-) Best Wishes, Bengt =============================================================== Everything aforementioned should be regarded as totally private opinions, and nothing else. bengt@softwell.se ``His great strength is that he is uncompromising. It would make him physically ill to think of programming in C++.''