From: Dave Mason <dmason@plg.uwaterloo.ca>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: more wishes for chrismas
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 11:21:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92Dec5.112121est.28994@plg.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9212041402.AA03650@oldp.astro.wisc.edu> (message from Alan Watson on Fri, 4 Dec 1992 09:02:51 -0500)
> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 09:02:51 -0500
> From: Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>
>
> There are a few characters which only make sense at certain places --
> like "=" which has to be quoted in dd commands -- but at least the
> current rules have a simplicity about them. No "foo does bar except
> for on the third Wednesday in the month if the month starts on a
> weekend."
This is the only spot where I get bitten occasionally and wouldn't
mind a change. If local assignments were only allowed at the
beginning of lines, then:
dd count=1 bs=512
wouldn't cause a problem. In fact, looking at the grammar in the rc
manual, assignments *are* only allowed at the beginning of lines, and
I don't see the rule that causes the problem.
../Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1992-12-05 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-12-04 14:02 Alan Watson
1992-12-04 14:48 ` Steve Rezsutek
1992-12-05 16:21 ` Dave Mason [this message]
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1992-12-06 8:21 Byron Rakitzis
1992-12-05 20:52 Emin Gun Sirer
1992-12-04 22:05 Chris Siebenmann
1992-12-04 16:53 Tom Culliton x2278
1992-12-04 14:58 peter
1992-12-04 12:53 malte
1992-12-04 14:03 ` Gerry.Tomlinson
1992-12-08 15:21 ` Mark-Jason Dominus
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