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I would rather say “who asked for namespaces in awk”? Who needs that and what’s the point? Any compatibility breakage in awk should start wit “negative points”
by acqq 8y ago
I would rather say “who asked for namespaces in awk”?
Who needs that and what’s the point? Any compatibility breakage in awk should start wit “negative points” so what are the positive ones to even qualify it as desired?
- rwbhn 8y agoSee http://www.skeeve.com/awk-sys-prog.html http://www.skeeve.com/awk-sys-prog.html
- billsmithaustin 8y agoSomething I just learned: there is an awk debugger! From the above page: “Beginning with version 4.0 in 2011, gawk provides an awk-level debugger: dgawk, which is modeled after GDB. This is a full debugger, with breakpoints, watchpoints, single statement stepping and expression evaluation capabilities.”
- acqq 8y agoThere are no details there. Just “it’s needed” claim. Brian Kernighan is also cited there, and also not convinced. I’m in a good company, at least.