From: steve@sk2.org (Stephen Kitt)
Subject: [TUHS] Bourne shell and comments
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:36:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170419203647.710e856a@heffalump.sk2.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c80774f1-25b2-eae0-09ae-d9eaf2ad787d@tnetconsulting.net>
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:45:36 -0600, Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net>
wrote:
> On 04/18/2017 02:51 PM, Ron Natalie wrote:
> > Was also the label for goto.
>
> Does that mean that the (so called) comment was really an (unused) label?
Not Unix, but on DOS (on PCs) this was a common trick — it was especially
appreciated because : as a comment prefix (often doubled, so it couldn’t be
mistaken for a goto label) was faster to process than the official REM (which
was a command which had to be executed).
Regards,
Stephen
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-18 20:48 Warren Toomey
2017-04-18 20:51 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-18 21:45 ` Grant Taylor
2017-04-18 22:16 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-18 22:40 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-19 18:36 ` Stephen Kitt [this message]
2017-04-19 20:35 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-04-19 0:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-04-19 8:35 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-04-19 16:31 ` Grant Taylor
2017-04-19 16:59 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-04-19 17:36 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-19 17:59 ` Grant Taylor
2017-04-20 20:13 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-20 20:17 ` Chet Ramey
2017-04-21 3:28 ` arnold
2017-04-21 3:43 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-21 6:07 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-04-21 11:18 ` Clem cole
2017-04-21 13:20 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-04-18 20:56 ` Chet Ramey
2017-04-19 21:02 ` Sven Mascheck
2017-04-19 22:07 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-20 0:31 ` shawn wilson
2017-04-20 0:35 ` shawn wilson
2017-04-20 3:50 ` Andy Kosela
2017-04-20 4:47 ` Warner Losh
2017-04-21 1:42 ` Nemo
2017-04-21 10:54 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-21 14:22 ` Andy Kosela
2017-04-21 14:45 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-22 2:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-20 16:39 ` Sven Mascheck
2017-04-20 21:42 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-19 19:18 Doug McIlroy
2017-04-21 17:03 Doug McIlroy
2017-04-21 18:15 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-21 19:13 ` Steve Johnson
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