On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:02:42PM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote: I second everything you just wrote.
> 2. " It also proposes a set of guidelines that we anticipate future > networking CLIs will follow (and, where appropriate and > feasible, could be applied to existing CLIs)." > > I found no guideslines - only a specific example. (I suggest > that you just delete this line - guidelines in this context will > probably result in enough discussion to result in a derail - > heck, there is enough discussion already without the "guideline" > assertion.) Indeed, but nonetheless the case may set precedent, no? > 3. "Although one might think that "eval" could be used in the shell to > access the set of values one line at a time, this has major pitfalls:" > > There are lots of ways to parse in shell. If you are wary of eval, > pick another. The "evil of eval" is not relevant to this case. I refuted those pitfalls too (though it's crucial to get the quoting rules right). One thing I hear is that there's a desire to obsolete and remove eval. Well, that'd get my attention. Nico --
