Re: [PATCH 0/9] Add library mode to source builtin

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/7/24 3:40 PM, Kerin Millar wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2024, at 7:14 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 5/7/24 1:42 PM, Kerin Millar wrote:
> > > On Tue, 7 May 2024, at 3:27 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > > > On 5/5/24 3:39 PM, Kerin Millar wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Such is the extent to which I concur that I find even -l to be irritating.
> > > >
> > > > The option character isn't important. Is it useful to have an additional
> > >
> > > If it were of no importance at all, once might then choose the character 
> > > entirely at random. That's not usually what happens.
> >
> > The issue is whether one is needed at all, not whether or not one character
> > irritates you.
>
> If you meant something to the effect of "in the case that I decide that having an 
> option is worthwhile, the choice of character is hardly the foremost concern in all of 
> this", then by all means.

Pretty much "Don't get hung up on the specific character until we decide we
need one. Certainly don't let one irritate you."

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/