On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 06:19:31PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 7/5/12 11:03 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > > On 07/05/2012 01:28, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> On 2012-Jul-05 09:22:25 +0200, Jonathan McKeown > >> <j.mcke...@ru.ac.za> wrote: > >>> As for the idea that Linux refugees need extra help to migrate, > >>> that's the sort of thinking that led to things like: > >>> > >>> alias dir=ls > >> > >> Whilst we're on the subject, can we please also have #define BEGIN > >> { #define END } wired into gcc to help people migrating from Algol > >> and Pascal. > > > > Um, this kind of elitist crap really isn't helpful. > > > > If the new feature gets created, and you don't want to use it, turn it > > off. No problem. > > > > I appreciate the people who've spoken up as to why they wouldn't want > > to use it, but I haven't seen anything yet that says "having this > > feature is a universally bad idea." > > > > Doug > > > > > As long as it can be toggled off system-wide, persistently (sysctl?), I > can't see the harm in bringing that in.
Haha sysctl... thats going quite a bit too far into the system for this. -- - (2^(N-1)) _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"