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From: Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>
To: haahr@mv.us.adobe.com (Paul Haahr)
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: redirection and built-ins
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 01:23:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9306070523.AA07327@oldp.astro.wisc.edu> (raw)

| ``echo ... | read foo'' is not the appropriate construct in rc or es.

Yeah, because it doesn't work; there is nothing intrinsicly
`inappropriate' about it.  I hadn't realised there was a lexicon of
politically correct idioms in rc, but clearly I have been badly
misinformed...

| read hasn't made it to either of these shells yet.  why are we talking
| about modifying fundamental parts of these shells to support inappropriate
| uses of (as-yet) unimplemented operations?

Sorry, I didn't actually mean to imply that read should be a built-in,
and I was actually thinking of a functionally-implemented read.  When
I mentioned rc forking to provide redirection for built-ins, I was
also thinking about functions, but it was sloppy writing on my part.


             reply	other threads:[~1993-06-07  5:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1993-06-07  5:23 Alan Watson [this message]
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1993-06-07 17:10 Alan Watson
1993-06-07 15:24 Paul Haahr
1993-06-07  0:32 Paul Haahr
1993-06-05 18:59 Alan Watson
1993-06-05 18:45 Paul Haahr
1993-06-05 18:38 Alan Watson

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