From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 25 6:34:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D25137B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:34:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maul.immure.com (ns.immure.com [207.8.42.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E29A43E3B for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by maul.immure.com (8.11.5/8.11.2) id g8PDYOW79257 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:34:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.vieo.com [10.1.132.3]) by maul.immure.com (8.11.5/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g8PDYMm79133; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:34:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.5/8.12.3) id g8PDYGVd005421; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:34:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luke.immure.com (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8PDYGed005396; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:34:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8PDY5Cc005391; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:34:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:34:05 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Peter Wemm , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? Message-ID: <20020925133405.GD74260@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <20020923122935.A6108@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020924203011.5EF752A7D6@canning.wemm.org> <200209242101.g8OL1TVd090894@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209242101.g8OL1TVd090894@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 on luke.immure.com X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 0.1.5c+ on maul.immure.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: > < 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 > . > > -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