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




On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:18 AM, David Holland wrote:

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:43:37AM -0700, James Chacon wrote:
I think we should warn.

[...]

I'm not necessarily apposed to warning, just that changing our existing
behavior of what to do with them should remain the same.

...ENOPARSE?


That the behavior of \X becoming X should remain the same.

James



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