From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay2.UU.NET ([192.48.96.7]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2230>; Mon, 24 May 1993 11:25:26 -0400 Received: from spool.uu.net (via LOCALHOST) by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA27012; Mon, 24 May 93 11:25:13 -0400 Received: from srg.UUCP by spool.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL (queueing-rmail) id 112319.12823; Mon, 24 May 1993 11:23:19 EDT Received: from ceres.srg.af.mil by srg.srg.af.mil id aa17907; Mon, 24 May 93 11:16:03 EDT From: culliton@srg.af.mil (Tom Culliton x2278) X-Mailer: SCO System V Mail (version 3.2) To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu Subject: Re: wishlist Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 11:17:03 -0400 Message-Id: <9305241117.aa09898@ceres.srg.af.mil> WHOA! My earlier message seems to have been misinterpreted. > From: Scott Schwartz ---------------------- > My biggest wish: > > I'd like > fn / { echo do stuff } > to work. > From: Emin Gun Sirer ---------------------- > P.S. Someone forgot to add the controversy about hash not introducing a > comment if it is not preceded by white space (e.g. lpr -#2), my personal > pet peeve, to the wish list. My intent WAS NOT to publish a wish list of things which should be changed in or added to rc. Instead it was to show some of the things that people had asked for and hopefully point out that if we did all these things we would end up with a ugly bloated mess. I was urging restraint rather than soliciting more crazed featurism. In case I'm still not making myself clear, some reasonable ideas have been discussed along with some REALLY bad ones, I don't think most of them belong in rc. It is supposed to be small and simple, IT IS small and simple, LETS KEEP IT THAT WAY! Tom