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Subject: Re: more wishes for chrismas 
Date:	Fri, 4 Dec 1992 17:05:28 -0500
From:	Chris Siebenmann <cks>
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| 1) back slash to escape a single character or alternatively
| 2) make '#' introduce a comment only at the beginning of a line or
|    if preceeded by white space only.

 Ugh and ugh.
 These go against the whole philosophy of quoting in rc (not to
mention breaking existing scripts, especially 2). If you want to make
this modification, please don't call the result 'rc'. You might be
better off hacking up one of the shells designed to be user-cuddly at
all costs, even; zsh, say. No one cares about consistency in them.

	- cks