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From: dailey@frith.uucp (Chris Dailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PIPEs
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.135216.1032@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 13:52:16 GMT
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In article <3761@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>     As for pipe characters, my vote is for retaining the Unix "|"
>symbol.  I can't think of any compelling reason to make people
>switch to something different.  Besides, multi-character operators
>are a pain to parse (but my viewpoint is no doubt prejudiced by
>the amount of programming I do).

I see no reason why a "|" character outside of a quoted string with
(one or more) spaces on either side should pose a problem as the pipe
indicator.  R.E.'s usually don't (can't?) have spaces in them unless in
a quoted string, right?  For whatever my opinion is worth, I am in
agreement with Charlie Gibbs (and at least a few others).

>Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
>Smash violence!
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Chris Dailey   dailey@(frith.egr|cpsin.cps).msu.edu
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