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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: fix for source includes in gendoc.sh for future consideration |
Date: | Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:21:33 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird |
On 2024-01-28 13:59, Bruno Haible wrote:
The backslashes at the end of a line are only a minor annoyance. Not being able to grasp the structure of a set of commands and pipes quickly — by looking at only the start of each line — is a major annoyance.
Hmm, well, not everyone grasps the same way, or is annoyed by things the same way. When I have a list of shell commands executed in sequence with error checking, I find it easier to read this:
cmd1 && cmd2 && cmd3 than this: cmd1 \ && cmd2 && cmd3because in this case '&&' acts like an alternative to ';', and it helps the commands line up better and this makes things easier to read.
(Oops, I forgot one of the backslashes. I'm not making this up: I simply forgot. This is another reason I'm annoyed by the backslashes.)
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