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From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve)
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Subject: Re: PIPEs
Summary: Second thoughts!
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Date: 4 Nov 90 07:24:23 GMT
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Duhh -- I've been thinking.  Maybe I'm just about to do a COMPLETE
about-face on what I said last time.

I suppose there's really no more conflict between the use of '|' as
a pipe character and its other uses than there is between, say, using '>'
for redirection and having it pop up in a pattern string (as a plain
character to be matched).  At least this is the case if you insist on a
space preceding it (as you need before '>' redirection), because a pattern
can never BEGIN with an alternation mark.  (Quotes and parentheses would
have to be taken into account naturally.)

        list #?.c|???.h | myformatter |myprinter

Any other problems?  If not, I withdraw my objections.

                                        -- Pete --