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Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined
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david kerns |
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Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined |
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Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:08:15 -0700 |
if it were put to a vote, I'd second the "no code change" option
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:37 PM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>
wrote:
> I have read today's posting on the subject of quoted strings in
> close() calls, where those strings are ambiguous. My feelings are
> that
>
> (a) because neither awk's original authors nor POSIX had dealt with
> this
> issue, and
>
> (b) because it is likely in practice to be exceedingly rare, and
>
> (c) because gawk should not introduce changes to the awk language
> unless they introduce significant new functionality (like
> gensub(), extension libraries, and access to multiple
> precision arithmetic).
>
> Thus all that gawk should do for the close() issue is to add one
> sentence to one of its noteworthy "dark corners" in the gawk manual,
> and leave gawk's code unchanged.
>
>
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- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, (continued)
- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, Lorenz, 2020/09/15
- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, Andrew J. Schorr, 2020/09/15
- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, arnold, 2020/09/15
- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, arnold, 2020/09/30
- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, Andrew J. Schorr, 2020/09/30
- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, arnold, 2020/09/30
- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, Andrew J. Schorr, 2020/09/30
- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, arnold, 2020/09/30
- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, Andrew J. Schorr, 2020/09/30
Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined, Nelson H. F. Beebe, 2020/09/14
- Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined,
david kerns <=