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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: awk syntax
Message-ID: <3CDBK69@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 17 May 91 17:32:48 GMT
References: <1991May13.222855.9433@uunet.uu.net> <1991May14.185737.15746@uunet.uu.net> <1991May15.165824.6896@uunet.uu.net> <1991May17.011011.6422@uunet.uu.net>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <1991May17.011011.6422@uunet.uu.net> arnold@audiofax.com writes:
> This is getting off the topic of standards, but what the heck.  You
> ommitted my rationalization of the consistency.  To rephrase: statements
> at the rule level should be consistent with statements inside an action.

I don't see that this does that. The problem with reasoning about awk,
though, is that LF is almost but not quite like a semicolon. Another
consideration is that they're already inconsistent: I can't do:

	/pattern/	print

for example.
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