Re: Problem with changed 'pipe' precedence

[Aharon Robbins]

Thank you for clarifying these issues for me.

You may wish to use a different awk implementation, such as the Bell Labs
awk, or mawk. URLs for both are listed in the gawk documentation.

You may also wish to parenthesize your string concatenations when used
with getline. This will insure portability to all awk implementations.

Arnold Robbins

> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:59:17 +1100
> From: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Problem with changed 'pipe' precedence
> To: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> For goodness me! Why don't you all grow up and start acting
> like adults instead of little wee hurt children.
>
> You didn't adequately test your changes and made a serious
> blunder, then you get all precious about it when somebody
> gets pissed off with the havoc the blunder caused.
>
> Last time the steering pinion in my car broke I also
> got really pissed off and complained to the manufacturer.
> And I wasn't polite about it either. Would you be?
>
> I suggest you develop some quality control for your product.
>
> Have a nice day.
> JW
>
> >Bob's comments are on target.  In particular his note about the tone
> >of the original post is correct; I didn't particularly appreciate it.
> >Would you say such things if you were talking to me in person? I
> >rather doubt it...
> >
> >Arnold
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:37:38 -0700
> >> From: address@hidden (Bob Proulx)
> >> Subject: Re: Problem with changed 'pipe' precedence
> >> To: address@hidden
> >> Cc: address@hidden
> >>
> >> address@hidden wrote:
> >> > Recent versions of gawk (at least 3.1.4-5.3) seem to have taken
> >> > the considerable liberty of changing the precedence order of the
> >> > pipe-like operator '|' (with getline) wrt string concatentation.
> >>
> >> Please see this thread of discussion on this topic.
> >>
> >>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-10/msg00064.html
> >>
> >> The thread was broken but continues here.
> >>
> >>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-10/msg00086.html
> >>
> >> > Please, can somebody fix this piece of stupidity?
> >> > ...other similar derisive remarks deleted...
> >>
> >> Note that the tone of your message is not conducive to starting a
> >> productive conversation with a developer.  In the future you would be
> >> well advised to remember the old saying, "You catch more flies with
> >> honey than vineger."
> >>
> >> Bob
> >
>
>
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