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Re: Invoking as 'ed - filename' broken in ed-0.3-pre[12]


From: Claudio Fontana
Subject: Re: Invoking as 'ed - filename' broken in ed-0.3-pre[12]
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:31:32 -0700 (PDT)

--- Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:

> Be brave and change patch to accept only `-s'. You
> may discover that 
> there are not so many affected systems

Cutting '-' abruptly would introduce incompatibility
between versions just for the sake of it.

'-s' and '-' can coexist peacefully: POSIX explicitly
states that '-' is implementation defined.

So.. why should one break something that works?

Claudio




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