On Sat May 30 13:36:14 PDT 2015, s...@9front.org wrote: > On May 30, 2015, at 11:54 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > > >> I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE > >> awk can be thrown in the trash. > > > > i don't understand this. awk is bwk's ota source, with some minor tweaks > > to fit the > > environment. it works well, and allows portable awk to be written. can you > > explain what is to be gained by a re do? i don't think "doesn't use ape" > > per ce > > is a good argument. it would have to be explained what this enables. i > > can't see > > that part. > > > > - erik > > if i understood correctly, the major reasons were better unicode handling and > not using sh for system().
using rc instead of /bin/ape/sh is a a bind away. similarly, adding %C to awk is also trivial. but there are compatability tradeoffs. (i used rune/uconv (see rune(1), http://sources.9atom.org/magic/man2html/1/rune) this doesn't seem like motiviation to rewrite awk. there must be another reason? by the way, thinking a bit bigger, what i'd like to see is x, where x is to awk as rc is to the bourne shell. - erik
