2009/4/6 Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:28:57 BST roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote:
a pipeline is an amazingly powerful thing considering
that it's not a turing-complete abstraction.
f | g is basically function composition, where f and g are
stream
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:24:36 BST roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/6 Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:28:57 BST roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com =C2=A0w=
rote:
a pipeline is an amazingly powerful thing considering
that it's not a turing-complete
Nitpick: the output type of one command and the input type of
the next command in the pipeline has to match, not every
command.
i think this is wrong. there's no requirement
that the programs participating in a pipeline are compatable
at all; that's the beauty of pipes. you can do things
If program A outputs numbers in big-endian order and B
expects input in little-endian order, A|B won't do the right
thing.
non-marshaled data considered harmful. film at 11. ☺
what i said was not that A|B makes sense for all A and B
and for any data but rather that using text streams
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:02:21 EDT erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
If program A outputs numbers in big-endian order and B
expects input in little-endian order, A|B won't do the right
thing.
non-marshaled data considered harmful. film at 11. âº
In effect you are imposing a
but forcing compability seems worse. where are these decisions
centralized? how do you change decisions? can you override
these decisions (cast)? how does the output of, say, awk get
typed?
The output of awk is a byte stream, same as its input. The
same holds for any program. If you
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:28:57 BST roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/2 fge...@gmail.com:
i wanted to go a little beyond sh while stopping
short of the type profligacy of most other languages,
hoping to create a situation where many commands
used exactly the same types, and hence
2009/4/2 fge...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:41 PM, John Stalker stal...@maths.tcd.ie wrote:
What I most often miss in shell programming is a proper type system.
You should have a look at alphabet. It is cool.
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/1/sh-alphabet.html
i certainly enjoyed
I don't know if others have already hit this kind of problematic, but I
was dealing with a fair amount of C code, usable both as a library and
accessible by a shell. Plus debugging needs. So I was, again and again,
writing a wrapper to access a C function from the shell.
So I ended concluding
