From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15381 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2002 03:58:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15365 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2002 03:58:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 Jul 2002 03:58:18 -0000 Received: from dsl254-114-118.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.254.114.118] helo=nevyn.them.org ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Zkct-00077a-00; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:58:19 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Zkct-0003R0-00; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:58:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:45:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: >, >>, and "tee" operators Message-ID: <20020731035819.GA13170@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20020723202051.GA5427@nevyn.them.org> <3D3F5BDF.2050209@ges.redhat.com> <20020725031026.GA20117@nevyn.them.org> <3D401D50.4030009@ges.redhat.com> <20020725161749.GA10862@nevyn.them.org> <3D40371D.6070603@ges.redhat.com> <20020730191825.GA17620@nevyn.them.org> <3D4758A5.8050605@ges.redhat.com> <20020731033617.GA11554@nevyn.them.org> <3D475EC0.3000906@ges.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D475EC0.3000906@ges.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00609.txt.bz2 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