Re: [bug-gawk] Feature request

[David Backer]

I like the idea, as some errors (think quotes)
lead to others down the line.

Another great ieda would be to pass gawk a program
that then have gawk spit it out ecaped so that you
can do something like:

BEGIN{
   awktest = "cool-prog";
}

{
   ret = system(awktest);
   if(ret)
   # etc.
}

VS having to write a small external program and call
it repeatedly, you see the main file will be in the
RAM or swap at all times whereas any external helper
utilities might not.

Thanks