On 9/2/19 4:19 PM, enh wrote: > On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 6:18 PM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > (as an aside, i still haven't understood \c. i've never seen it used > in practice, and the examples i've seen are all of the form "x\cy" > which would be better written as just "x".)
I think it's so echo "$ONE$TWO" can have $ONE end with something that prevents $TWO from mattering? Dunno. >> Yay tests, > > one concern i have here is that we're copying the cigarette burns > (https://www.wired.com/1995/09/tognazzini/). I'd send you a link to the Babylon 5 bit where G'Kar's book was copied exactly including Girabaldi's coffee stain, but I'm not digging enough to find it on youtube just now. > does anyone actually benefit from all these slightly different > behaviors? is anything relying on it? (different behaviors for invalid > octal escapes, say, seems somewhat likely to matter in practice. "find > doesn't support \x", though, seems very unlikely to me. especially > because GNU considers that an error.) This is why I wait for people to complain before opening various cans of worms, _but_ once I'm implementing something I try to do it right. (I.E. if I'm gonna support \0, do it as a side effect of octal.) And if I _can_ implement things using common code (such as collating the 3 implementations here), and this winds up implementing extra features, I'm not going to spend code _disabling_ the extra features. (That's why just about every toybox command line numerical input supports units.) Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
