Re: io:lines() and 0円
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- Subject: Re: io:lines() and 0円
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: 2014年2月22日 07:10:47 +0200
2014年02月22日 0:51 GMT+02:00 Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com>:
> So there are only two questions to answer:
> (1) Is the patch a significant improvement?
> (2) Is it going to be adopted?
>
> I think the answer to (1) is yes, and the answer to (2) is no.
> I’ve not seen any good, unbiased arguments as to why the
> answer to (1) would be no.
Most arguments start from a position on whether the present
behaviour is a bug. The OP, for example, has chosen to win
friends and influence people by sarcastically describing what
Roberto is willing to do as "to cover a data corruption bug with
a change of the manual".
In that sense they are all biased. If you do not agree that it is
a bug, then a little clarification in the manual is fully satisfactory,
and the answer to (1) is no because: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
But I will give you a good reason not based on that.
The change to the manual that Roberto intends to make
covers other non-portable characters too: "... nor any other
control character other than newlines and horizontal tabs."
Vertical tab, for example. Escape sequences for highlighting
text on your terminal. Page feeds. Ctrl-Z. All of them may
give unportable results.
The proposed patch caters for the promotion of 0円 is to be an
honorary non-control character.
You can't just liberate the beatiful butterfly called 0円. There's
a whole Pandora's box full of creatures waiting to emerge.
- References:
- io:lines() and 0円, René Rebe
- Re: io:lines() and 0円, steve donovan
- Re: io:lines() and 0円, René Rebe
- Re: io:lines() and 0円, Enrico Colombini
- Re: io:lines() and 0円, steve donovan
- Re: io:lines() and 0円, René Rebe
- Re: io:lines() and 0円, Craig Barnes
- Re: io:lines() and 0円, René Rebe
- Re: io:lines() and 0円, Sean Conner
- Re: io:lines() and 0円, René Rebe
- Re: io:lines() and 0円, Tim Hill