Re: bin/39002 (harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character)

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/39002; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
christos%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/39002 (harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:35:35 +0300

 > The patch has been applied. Now awk produces the same warnings other
 > awk implementations, and awk programmers can either fix their code
 > or live with the warnings. Another option is to add a command line
 > warning flag, but I'd rather not, since it is easy to fix the code
 > and it makes the scripts more portable.
 
 Thank you. How about another similar proposal?
 
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2008/06/20/msg000781.html
 
 I guess this also contradicts with "The AWK Programming Language" book
 (the only reasonable argument against this patch I've seen).
 
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 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.