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: > <<On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:30:11 -0700, Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > ><http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/Attic/sort.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup>. > > -GAWollman > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Bob Willcox We seem to have forgotten the simple truth that [EMAIL PROTECTED] reason is never perfect. Only non-sense attains Austin, TX perfection. -- Poul Henningsen [1894-1967] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
