Sebastien Roy wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 08:57 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> I have three letters, which may be unpopular:
>>
>> X-M-L
>>
>
> This isn't easily parseable from a shell. Also, let's not design the
> system by committee in the context of this PSARC case please.
>
> -Seb
>
+1
That said, two things,...
1) As this seems to be heading for "invention", try to do so
inclusive of the external developers.
2) Try to avoid invention. IMO the best "invention" comes from
the virtual stone age --- use unique flags to deliver unique tokens.
Think "uname":
$ uname -a
SunOS hawaiin-sun 5.11 snv_85 i86pc i386 i86pc
Yeech:
$ FOO=`uname -a | <gross pipe>`
Much better:
$ FOO=`uname -n`
Its much easier and more robust to do the token generation in the
utility than in some error prone (and re-invented) shell parsing.
- jek3
