> > Everything can be carried to extreme. Even ancestor worship. The > > basic utilities were written by smart people who didn't always fully > > understand what they were doing. There is nothing radical about > > suggesting that we try not to repeat their mistakes. > > well why not take your own advice and implement this. > live with it. let us know how it goes.
> - erik Would you please start reading posts before replying to them? The only thing I have proposed is that people stop gratituously creating programs which treat empty lists exceptionally. If that is what you mean by the paragraph above then I do try to implement it, and am quite happy with the results. But I think you mean something else. You mean that I want to replace cat, rm, chmod etc. by programs which adhere to this principle. I've said several times that I am not going to do this and that I think it would break too many things, including most of my own shell scripts. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282
