Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:34:05 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? Message-ID: <20020925133405.GD74260@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <200209242101.g8OL1TVd090894@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20020923122935.A6108@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020924203011.5EF752A7D6@canning.wemm.org> <200209242101.g8OL1TVd090894@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Funny, this argument suddenly reminds me of the "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galexy" :-) Bob On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:01:29PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:30:11 -0700, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> said: > > > Oh man, this is going to suck. There are thousands and thousands of third > > party scripts that use +n syntax. > > > I am most unhappy with this change. :-( > > The time to complain about it was back in 1992when the old syntax was > labeled ``deprecated'' by P1003.2, or in 1999 when the revision cycle > was just heating up. Old deprecated features were automatically > dropped leading up to the 2001 revision, unless someone could make a > case for their retention. That case wasn't made in the case of > `sort', and as a result the Standard no longer permits the old syntax. > It's not like people didn't have nine years' advance warning to fix > their scripts. > > FreeBSD supported `-k' in 1.0; see > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/Attic/sort.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup>. > > -GAWollman > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Bob Willcox We seem to have forgotten the simple truth that bob@vieo.com reason is never perfect. Only non-sense attains Austin, TX perfection. -- Poul Henningsen [1894-1967] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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