Re: Differences between Duff's rc and Byron's

[haahr@mv.us.adobe.com (Paul Haahr)]

> The Plan 9 man pages say "~ subject pattern ..." where subject is
> singular (Duff's paper says "a string") and under BUGS the Plan 9 man
> page says "There should be a way to match patterns against whole lists
> rather than just single strings."  Byron allows subject to be a list.

oh, i think i misinterpreted this comment.  i had always thought it
to mean that Duff wanted a way to match lists against lists.
(in both rcs,
	~ (a b) (b a)
and
	~ (a b) (a c)
return true;  my interpretation of Duff's comment was that he wanted
something that would return false for both, since the lists are not
identical.)

my understanding was that Byron's and Duff's versions had exactly
the same semantics for ~.  can someone verify this?

paul