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

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

> 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.