From: schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu
To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: comments, newlines
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1992 11:54:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92Mar15.125505est.2539@groucho.cs.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Mar 92 18:31:07 EST." <19920315183107.28843.frobozz@karl.cs.su.OZ.AU>
| I am in favour of John's view. I always getting caught by special
| characters ([=~#]) always being special and having to quote them which
| makes commands look really ugly and less readable sometimes.
The only such character I've had problems with is '='. Rc and make are
like csh and uucp. :-)
But back to lists... Wouldn't it be nice if this were legal?
x=(1
2
3)
(no backslashes) Then you could easily comment out parts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1992-03-15 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-03-14 19:39 Emin G. Sirer
1992-03-15 23:31 ` James Matthew Farrow
1992-03-15 17:54 ` schwartz [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1992-03-11 17:27 haahr
1992-03-12 22:05 ` David J. Fiander
1992-03-13 10:14 ` John Mackin
1992-03-13 22:44 ` Dave Mason
1992-03-11 7:19 schwartz
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