Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:02:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes Message-ID: <199908271602.SAA07506@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > What follows is a diff that presents Doug's changes (which must have > required quite a bit of effort, thanks!) Yeah -- Thanks Doug! > Specifically, case statements look more like what a lot of folks are > used to seeing, and conditionals that don't need to be case sensitive > have not been converted to case statements. The case statements have another advantage over if/test -- case is a shell-builtin, test is not. Therefore, "case" is more efficient. I'd vote for using "case" instead of if/test where possible. > I think the effort which Doug has put into this is great and would make > for a better rc. It's a pity that a few cosmetic issues generated so > much pooh-pooh'ing. :-( I'm very sorry that the suggestions in my previous mail caused a wrong impression. I appreciate Doug's work very much. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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