On Wed, Sep 06, 2006, Jeremy Nelson wrote: >> [A modest proposal to be able to turn off support for words with spaces] > It is my personal opinion (as a user, not as a coder) that support for > words with spaces is important, and that it is undesirable for there not > to be a single set of rules on when double quoted words are supported > and when they are not. It is also unfortunate that there are some places > you really wish you could turn off support for them, but you can't.
Second thoughts: adding an operator to disable dquotes from called functions is a really bad idea; it's ad-hoc and inconsistent with the rest of scripting facilities. My new proposal: adding /ufe, $uword(), $ufindw(), $usplice() and all other elaborate ways to manipulate words, which would ignore dwords. To do this without duplicating code, provide a generic internal way for extracting words, specifying whether dwords are honored or not. Does this sound acceptable? _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@epicsol.org http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
