Norm wrote: > David Levine <[email protected]> writes: > >Norm wrote: > >> > >> I would be content to just ignore the exit status. > > > >I don't think that's a good idea. > > If it's not too much trouble for you, I'd like to understand why > this is so.
In general, if something goes wrong, the user should be informed. Especially here, given that a user has a lot of flexibility in what they can put into a format. And it's for the user to put something in that doesn't do what they mean. While it might not (but could) be a huge problem when showing a message, I'm more concerned about outgoing messages. Something might get left out, or put in inadvertently, due to unexpected format behavior. While it's my responsibility to look at every character in every outgoing message, as messages get bigger and more complex, that gets harder. I'd like all the help I can get from the tools. > It might make a good M.S. history thesis to find out why it wasn't > there already. I was wondering about it, too. Here's the commit that added divide, but not multiply: revision 1.2 date: 1990/02/21 15:39:50; author: sources; state: Exp; lines: +71 -61 Fixes from Van Jacobson David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
