Re: fflush & close behavior not well-defined

[david kerns]

if it were put to a vote, I'd second the "no code change" option

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:37 PM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>
wrote:

> I have read today's posting on the subject of quoted strings in
> close() calls, where those strings are ambiguous.  My feelings are
> that
>
>     (a) because neither awk's original authors nor POSIX had dealt with
> this
>         issue, and
>
>     (b) because it is likely in practice to be exceedingly rare, and
>
>     (c) because gawk should not introduce changes to the awk language
>         unless they introduce significant new functionality (like
>         gensub(), extension libraries, and access to multiple
>         precision arithmetic).
>
> Thus all that gawk should do for the close() issue is to add one
> sentence to one of its noteworthy "dark corners" in the gawk manual,
> and leave gawk's code unchanged.
>
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