From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: >, >>, and "tee" operators
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020731035819.GA13170@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D475EC0.3000906@ges.redhat.com>
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:51:28PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:25:25PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >>>So in other words, I'd like to stick with
> >>>
> >
> >>>>> redirect [-a[ppend]] FILE [COMMAND]
> >>>>> log [-a[ppend]] FILE [COMMAND]
> >
> >>
> >>Don't forget that prefix `-' and `--' are valid C operators. You can't
> >>tell the difference between the above and a valid C expressions. I
> >>think that rules `-...' out.
> >
> >
> >Actually, I still disagree - I think that it remains unambiguous where
> >to expect an expression and where to expect command-line syntax.
>
> It becomes context depedent :-( Do we use ``/'' when an expression is
> the first parameter but ``-'' when a file is the first parameter ....?
No, we use ``/'' for print formatting characters and ``-'' for options.
Which appears to be exactly the status quo.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-31 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-23 11:51 Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-23 12:23 ` Tom Tromey
2002-07-23 13:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-23 13:20 ` Tom Tromey
2002-07-23 13:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-24 20:10 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-24 20:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-25 9:17 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-25 10:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-25 10:46 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-30 13:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-30 20:36 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-30 20:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-30 20:58 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-30 22:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-07-31 9:36 ` david carlton
2002-07-31 9:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-01 8:05 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-08-01 10:24 ` david carlton
2002-08-01 12:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-01 12:16 ` david carlton
2002-08-13 15:20 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-07-23 14:23 ` Grant Edwards
2002-07-24 1:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-07-24 19:01 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-24 22:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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