> a2p isn't meant to be an implementation of awk, but an approximate > translator. It deliberately compromises on awk semantics in order to > produce idiomatic Perl. So this problem, arising from a low-level > difference in language semantics, is unfortunate but not a bug. In that case, a2p(1) should document this subtlety just as it does so with the many other issues in its conversion of awk to perl.Thread Previous | Thread Next