This one reads a lot better to me and even shaves of 2LoC. :-)
OK martijn@
On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 18:28 -0600, Scott Cheloha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The cook_args() and raw_args() functions in cat(1) are too clever.
> They handle multiple special cases in a single big loop with lots of
> branches.
Hi,
The cook_args() and raw_args() functions in cat(1) are too clever.
They handle multiple special cases in a single big loop with lots of
branches. It's been like this since at least 1989:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/bin/cat/cat.c?view=markup=37179
The goal seems to be to avoid calling
