From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 8 14:11:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D39137B6FA; Wed, 8 May 2002 14:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g48L8KnG138328; Wed, 8 May 2002 17:08:20 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020508130458.B72921@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200205080304.g4834BL42647@green.bikeshed.org> <20020508130458.B72921@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 17:08:19 -0400 To: "David O'Brien" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1 Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , "J. Mallett" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:04 PM -0700 5/8/02, David O'Brien wrote: >[Bogus From: address, because people cannot be bothered to respect >Reply-To:] > >On Wed, May 08, 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > This then suggests we need two command-flags, one which > > always takes an argument and one which never takes one. > >Why do we need to waste two flags on this functionality? >IF we are not going to accurately follow perl, then require >"-i" to have an argument. Oh. Yes, that would be fine with me too. I thought someone had argued that '-i' must not have an argument. That was OK with me, but I'm equally happy to have just the one flag instead of two. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message