On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 12:03:01AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Ted, > > Ted Unangst wrote on Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 05:41:41PM -0500: > > > Here's a revised diff against current. It just notes that the > > extension spellings are such. > > I'm OK with that, discouraging gratuitiously non-standard syntax > makes a lot of sense. >
when find(1) was imported into openbsd (or when openbsd itself was imported), it came with the syntax "-and" and "-or". that was in 1995, some 19 years ago. beyond that, well you'd be much better qualified to tell me the history of it. so how have you gone from that to "gratuitiously non-standard syntax"? if it has existed for 19 years (and before that), in this context it is completely standard syntax. i'll ask again: are we deprecating this syntax to such an extent that we are actively asking people not to use it and, if so, why? jmc
