Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 08:37:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, jb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c Message-ID: <19990508083700.D40359@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <xzp7lqkkcw7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Fri, May 07, 1999 at 07:28:24PM %2B0200 References: <199905051841.EAA25231@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <xzp7lqkkcw7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Friday, 7 May 1999 at 19:28:24 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes: >> Can we have a semicolon for the path separator before people start using >> this? We are not MSDOS. > > I chose to use a semicolon for consistency with other similar > variables (e.g. module_path). Hmm. I thought that by now people would have realised that this was a typo on bde's part. bde sent a retraction out shortly later, but nobody seems to have read it. FWIW, the semicolon is what MS-DOS uses in order not to be too UNIX-like. Do I need to say we should be using colons here? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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