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Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > 2008/7/29 Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>: > >> We can discourage the unconsidered use of magic ARGV with a >> warning. This would be the exact same strategy that C compilers >> followed WRT `gets`, which it seems to me worked well for C. It >> also seems to me that the people who are certain enough that they >> want this feature are also people who won't shy away from muting >> a warning. >> > > Recapitulating what was proposed by you, we are getting to : > * not changing <> > * introducing new, safer <<>> (or «» if I may joke about the > utf8-cleanliness of the tokeniser) > * a feature or a pragma then becomes not useful > * a way to extend ARGV's magic would be nice, but needs not to be in the core > I have no complaint with this approach. Cheers, mark -- Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>Thread Previous | Thread Next