From: smd@clock.org To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: New rc snapshot, includes "the equals hack" Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:32:30 -0500 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20000815133234Z3021-8597+4@cesium.clock.org> (raw) Maybe I'm a bit of a crank, but I think for scripting work, the "equals hack" really doesn't buy much; the only time I even ponder it is when I am doing interactive work and forget that "arguments containing special characters must be quoted". Although I know that dd, make, and some GNU utilities like arguments which contain one of rc's special characters, and this can be frustrating if one forgets, I don't see why we should necessarily have: : sean(rc) ; echo foo=a foo=a but : sean(rc) ; echo foo^a fooa : sean(rc) ; echo foo&a 12978 a not found foo : sean(rc) ; echo foo;a foo a not found : sean(rc) ; echo foo$a foo and so forth. One of the neat things about rc is that there are few syntactic surprises; I think a rule that says "quote your arguments" and especially "arguments with special characters MUST be quoted" is consistent. Sean.
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