04.07.2022 01:54:16 Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru>: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 00:07:23 +0200, Roland Illig wrote: > >> Am 03.07.2022 um 21:55 schrieb Valery Ushakov: >>> On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 10:56:22 +0000, Roland Illig wrote: >>> >>>> Module Name: src >>>> Committed By: rillig >>>> Date: Sun Jul 3 10:56:22 UTC 2022 >>>> >>>> Modified Files: >>>> src/external/historical/nawk/bin: awk.1 >>>> >>>> Log Message: >>>> awk.1: remove trailing space in output of 'echo' example program >>> >>> This is cure worse than the desease. Please revert. >> >> Why is it worse? > > It's ugly
Why is it ugly? > and complicated (for an example), Why is it complicated? It's still only 3 lines of code. > it obscures the point this example tries to make. What is this (single?) point this example tries to make? To me, it was how to write a BEGIN program that uses ARGV, and my rewritten code still illustrates this. > The point is not to write a perfect echo(1) clone in awk. If that had been my goal, I would have implemented the -n option as well, at which point the code would have grown large enough to be extracted into a separate file. I didn't do that though. Roland
