<<On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:30:11 -0700, Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Oh man, this is going to suck. There are thousands and thousands of third > party scripts that use +n syntax. > I am most unhappy with this change. :-( The time to complain about it was back in 1992when the old syntax was labeled ``deprecated'' by P1003.2, or in 1999 when the revision cycle was just heating up. Old deprecated features were automatically dropped leading up to the 2001 revision, unless someone could make a case for their retention. That case wasn't made in the case of `sort', and as a result the Standard no longer permits the old syntax. It's not like people didn't have nine years' advance warning to fix their scripts. FreeBSD supported `-k' in 1.0; see <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/Attic/sort.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup>. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
