On 7/14/06, Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> i'm not sure why acme and other plan9 filesystems typically disallow a
>> trailing newline
>> on input and don't provide one on output.
>
>
> Yup. This one is my top entry for the confusomatic contest.
I think if there were a newline, we'd all have scripts called 'chop' for
removing it. I don't think there's a perfect answer here.
ron
But some of them are clearly inserting newlines, like event and they
require one as well to be a completed "event".
I don't care about perfection as much as I do about consistency (and
that it works... it could have just been consistently broken too I
suppose) :-)
Dave
