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From: lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
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Subject: Re: To . or not to .
Message-ID: <1668@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 08:20:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 14 08:20:14 1987
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Summary:


More on //a and a//b so n now if you are tired of this discussion.

In article <9363@tekecs.TEK.COM>, snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com
	(Snoopy) writes:
* In article <972@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
	(Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:

**SVR2 (and any AT&T Unix system I'm familiar with) lets you use
**multiple /.
**
**	//a is the same as /a
**	a//b is the same as a/b
**
**This nice thing about doing it this way is that you can be a little
**sloppy in your program and it will still work.  I admit it I'm lazy!
**And what is the harm anyway?

Please quote everything that is relevant to your reply, thanks.
I also said that it might indicate you have a *broken* program.
Broken also means non-portable (to me).  I take a great deal of
pride in my long lived programs and try to keep them as "clean"
as possible.

*Sloppy programming is not a good idea.

Of course, but neither is going to great lengths to make a program
"clean" that you are going to throw away in 10 minutes after your done
writing it.

If you ask me, I think the //a syntax to indicate the root file system
on machine a is brain dead.  Why not use a mount point instead of
jerking around with //a ?  Geez.

Stupid programming is worse than sloppy programming.

	Larry Cipriani
	...!cbosgd!cbsck!lvc AT&T Network Systems
	...!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!lvc Ohio State University

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