On 5/23/07, Jukka Salmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sander van Dijk --> dwm (2007-05-23 17:53:26 +0200):
> As for test being a language contruct: is isn't, or at least wasn't
> originally.
If that's why you don't want test/[ to be shell builtins you might
want to remove other builtins like echo, printf, false, true, pwd,
kill, etc. as well. If executable size really matters this might indeed
be a good idea, especially for "large" things like printf.
That's how it used to be, and I do believe that represents the
original UNIX spirit (do one thing, and do that right) much better
than the way it is in UNIX-like systems today. To me, conceptual
simplicity is much more important than performance gains through what
I percieve to be "speedhacks". Oppinions do (and probably should)
differ though...
Greetings, Sander.
