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

To: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
From: James Chacon <jmc%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:47:19 -0700


On Jun 26, 2008, at 6:39 AM, David Holland wrote:

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:31:40AM -0700, James Chacon wrote:

i.e. there's nothing stating that

\x -> \x

or

\x -> x

inside a string. It's not clearly defined there at all.


...which is why it ought to generate a warning.

Never disagreed with that. I was simply stating the behavior we havetoday (where \x -> x) should remain the same.


James

References:
- Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
  - From: Aleksey Cheusov
- Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
  - From: James Chacon
- Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
  - From: Aleksey Cheusov
- Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
  - From: James Chacon
- Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
  - From: David Holland
- Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
  - From: Aleksey Cheusov
- Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
  - From: James Chacon
- Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
  - From: Aleksey Cheusov
- Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
  - From: James Chacon
- Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character
  - From: David Holland

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