I like the "-" approach, it plays better with how we handle inputs. Could you please open up an issue?
*José Valimwww.plataformatec.com.br <http://www.plataformatec.com.br/>Founder and Director of R&D* On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Norbert Melzer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/15/2017 09:48 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Please let me know if I misread the docs and there is a way to do this. > If > > not, then adding a --stdin flag to Mix formatter task would address both > > issues. > > I like the STDIN to STDOUT thing in general, since this allows piping, > chaining and composing of various tools, and I'm not sure, why we would > discourage a pattern which is common inside of the language, in the > tools of the langauge. > > Instead of a special flag though, I'd prefer `-` as a filename, which is > pretty common in linux. When used as a “filename” to read from, its > meaning is “read from STDIN”, if though its used as a “filename” for the > output its meaning is ”write to STDOUT”. > > Bye > Norbert > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/elixir-lang-core/4f425e3f-8675-1c3c-9999-583074ee3004%40gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4LKKJW1Ph1%2BCMJqh8XX%2B%2BAKwKdtsh0THTrkPjJoyQFrjQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
