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If I were the gawk maintainer I would be unwilling to take on features by default. It is widely used infrastructure and keeping out bugs is far more important t
by Joeri 3y ago
If I were the gawk maintainer I would be unwilling to take on features by default. It is widely used infrastructure and keeping out bugs is far more important than taking on features. If the userbase keeps asking for the same feature over and over, at that point it would be up for consideration, but no sooner.
- vidarh 3y agoI think the point is that the list of features added in gawk vs. POSIX awk is miles long... They've not exactly shown restraint. That said, proving it's value in a fork first seems reasonable.