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From: yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Pipes
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.192153.12963@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 19:21:53 GMT
References: <7594.273e8c18@jetson.uh.edu> <1990Nov13.125723.8271@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> <15839@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <15839@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
+In article <1990Nov13.125723.8271@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall) writes:
+>In article <7594.273e8c18@jetson.uh.edu> honp9@jetson.uh.edu (Jason L. Tibbitts III) writes:
+>
+>+Do the pattern-matching functions in 2.0 require the parenthesis grouping?
+>
+>Definitely not.
+
+	Uh, I advise trying it before saying that.  A current "bug" in the
+pattern-match code means that it requires the parens.  This may be promoted
+to a feature if it is sufficiently hard to fix (it's in a very tight, complex,
+hard-to-modify assembler module).

erp.  I don't have 2.0 (just a lowly 2500/30 here), but the guy down the
street does, and I've spent a fair amount of time mucking with his machine.
My conclusion-jumping was based on the manual's statements...

+Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.

ken
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