Bob Proulx wrote: > I think the main point of your objection is that while "print" is > correct that it doesn't specify the column it is printed in. The > language is less precise than in the behavior description which it > more explicitly describes what is happening. However this is in an > example which is extra additional information. I think it is good for > examples to use alternate language. Many people find it useful to > have alternate descriptions since different people read things > differently. Simply repeating the previous behavior description > verbatim would be less useful to a large number of people even if it > is the most precise.
I haven't heard any reply on this for the last week. I don't know if we have converged to a concensus or not. However I think we have and so I am going to mark the ticket as closed. If you feel that more discussion is needed please don't be shy. Please keep discussing the issue. Also a good resource for these things is the upstream mailing list coreut...@gnu.org where this can be discussed with the upstream maintainers. It is a friendly list and good results can be had there. Also for further reference here is a link to the online standards documentation. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/comm.html Bob
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