From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8758 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2002 03:51:34 -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 8751 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2002 03:51:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 Jul 2002 03:51:33 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A28C3F2E; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:51:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D475EC0.3000906@ges.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:58:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020708 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: >, >>, and "tee" operators References: <20020723192325.GA30738@nevyn.them.org> <87d6te8a6o.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00608.txt.bz2 > 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 ....? Andrew