Package: enum
Version: 1.0.3-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

This works:

        # Count from 40, 4 steps per, 25 times, & print it backwards.
        % enum .. 25x 4 .. 40

... but not this:

        % enum 25x 4 40
        ERROR: Combination of command line arguments could not be parsed:
        25x 4 40        

But the latter dotless syntax would be easier to type, and 
the trailing 'x' in '25x' seems properly unambiguous.

The man page describes other COUNTx usages:

   % man enum | nl | grep COUNTx | grep -v LEFT
   107       o    enum ..  COUNTx STEP ..  RIGHT
   112       o    enum ..  COUNTx STEP ..
   113       o    enum ..  COUNTx ..  RIGHT
   121       o    enum ..  COUNTx ..
   125       o    enum COUNTx

Only line 125 dispenses with the leading '..', yet the other lines
would be unambiguous if the leading '..' were removed.

In line 107, the '..' following 'STEP' also seems unnecessary.

Hope this helps...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages enum depends on:
ii  libc6  2.13-21

enum recommends no packages.

enum suggests no packages.

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