Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> >But to be reeeeeeally honest, I'd rather have the output be
> >OS-independent so that wrapper scripts are instantaneously (more)
> >portable.
> >
> Really? Which wrapper scripts?
>
> * Shell scripts: inherently non-portable, not worth the bother.
> * Python, Perl: Can handle both forward and backward slashes on Windows.
> * Emacs: ditto.
> * vi: don't know and don't give a damn.
Huh?
I mean, sure, if you carefully write the script to accept both kinds
of separator. I think Mike means something like: if our output always
uses "/", then anyone who writes an output-parsing script can depend
on "/" as the separator.
I'm not arguing for or against Mike's point, merely trying to make
sure it gets understood. It's meaningless to say that Python and Perl
"Can handle both forward and backward slashes on Windows". They can
handle them if you wrote the script that way, but any such script will
be a bit more complex than a script which just handles one or the
other.
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Received on Thu May 8 07:24:13 2003