Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: A proposal for a Cygnus naming convention MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 01:11:20 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Mellman Thomas" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g48FBwP07074 > -----Original Message----- > From: Mellman Thomas [mailto:Thomas.Mellman@icn.siemens.de] > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:06 AM > It's just that I like to use split() in perl or $1, $2, $3 in > awk. To say it's "easy" to handle blanks with Unix is ... > well, to avoid anything that might inflame, let's say, academic. > > Incidently, I haven't heard anyone explain what purpose the > blank in "mount v2" serves. It's easier to read than "mountv2". Plus it confuses perl programs. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/