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On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:22:06 +0100 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of |
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> "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) accepting "-" as the first |
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> argument? |
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There's a slightly different variation in exheres-0: as well as do* and |
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new*, there's also here*, which you use like this: |
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hereins foo <<'END' |
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stuff |
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END |
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It magically barfs, rather than hanging indefinitely, if you forget to |
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give it some input. |
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The rationale for giving it a new name rather than overloading an |
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existing one is that some of the existing do* utilities don't take just |
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a single simple filename, so overloading would make the command line |
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somewhat convoluted. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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