Hi, On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 03:52:02PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> I think it still makes sense to remove that ED macro if it serves no > purpose Who says that amusing hackers is not an important purpose? :-) (Especially in a volunteer project like this... See http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/10/ofun.html ) On a more serious note, I'm a bit ambiguous about this. On the one hand, it's a bit silly that programs fail because of something that was just meant to be a joke. On the other hand, strictly speaking it's their fault for using reserved identifiers... BTW, for those who don't catch the joke: It is a reference to the standard UNIX editor "ed". The original version (and also GNU ed, if invoked without -v) will always print just a '?' whenever a command can not be executed for any reason. The ed tutorial has this to say about it: If at any time you make an error in the commands you type to ed, it will tell you by typing ? This is about as cryptic as it can be, but with practice, you can usually figure out how you goofed. -antrik-