On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Tim Murphy <tnmur...@gmail.com> wrote: > would probably be quite nice and they don't absolutely demand that one > use the C library mode flags (w,w+,a etc). This is one thing that > Paul didn't like from the previous suggestions.
A bit of a sidetrack, but I don't agree with the logic here. The notion that "r", "w", and "a" stand for "read", "write", and "append" did not originate with the C stdio library. One could make a case against these mnemonics on grounds of English-centrism but realistically English is the lingua franca and GNU make ("patsubst", "--keep-going") is already thoroughly Anglicized, for better or worse. And "+" has a truly international mnemonic value. So: I have no particular attitude about which implementation is chosen, but being skeptical of [rwa+] simply because fopen borrowed from the same dictionary makes no sense to me. People familiar with fopen will enjoy the symmetry, others will still see the common sense in it. -David Boyce _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make