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From: Chris Siebenmann <cks>
To: rc
Subject: Re: Thoughts on a builtin read
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 12:50:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93Sep21.125104edt.2223@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: byron's message of Tue, 21 Sep 93 12:36:23 -0400. <9309211636.AA09070@netapp.com>

 IMHO this is thus an argument against read as a backquote operator,
since one strong reason to put it into the shell in the first place
is for efficiency reasons.

 I'm not particularly eager to see someone have to change rc's
perfectly fine and working i/o system for backquote operators.

	- cks


  reply	other threads:[~1993-09-21 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1993-09-21 16:36 Byron Rakitzis
1993-09-21 16:50 ` Chris Siebenmann [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1993-09-22 17:18 Steve_Kilbane
1993-09-21 17:26 Arnold Robbins
1993-09-21 17:11 rsalz
1993-09-21 16:58 Arnold Robbins
1993-09-21 16:52 gjv%atlas%cesar
1993-09-21 15:56 malte
1993-09-21 17:02 ` Chris Siebenmann
1993-09-21 15:54 Tom Culliton x2278
1993-09-21 15:15 Alan Watson
1993-09-21 15:09 rsalz
1993-09-21 14:33 malte
1993-09-21 14:20 rsalz
1993-09-21  6:51 malte
1993-09-21 14:19 ` Chris Siebenmann
1993-09-20 22:11 Tom Culliton x2278

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