Re: Pending breakpoints and scripts

Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-17T19:31:19Z

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:24:32PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >The real problem here is with batch scripts, the change breaks existing
> >>script behavior (which is never a good thing).
> >>
> >>How about this, we introduce:
> >> nquery()
> >> yquery()
> >>where the default (batch mode, and when return is pressed is n/y
> >>respectively). We'd need the language police to look over the interface
> >>but should otherwize be ok.
> >
> >
> >Works for me.
>
> Lets see if we can pin down the interface (adding JeffJ to the CC list):
>
> nquery("A question?")
>
> A question? [n]:
>
> - press return => implied "n"
> - batch mode => implied "n"

How would you feel about "[n/y]"? Otherwise, I like this.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer