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From: Wartan Hachaturow <wartan.hachaturow@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: standards/54410 (awk command)
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:09:00 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt
<schweikh@schweikhardt.net> wrote:

> 3. Add {} unconditionally at the risk of breaking awk scripts and point
>    users to awk(1) where it says this should always have been like this.
>    Place prominent note in UPGRADING. Hah, as if anyone reads that :-)

I would certainly vote for that.
If standard requires ERE supports as a default behaviour, then our awk should
behave like that by default.
If scripts use non-standard behaviour, they are broken and should be fixed :)
However, it might be wise to test buildworlds and base system before committing,
and force maintainers to fix scipts in advance -- at least, most important ones.

-- 
Regards, Wartan.