On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Bill Huey wrote: > Apparently you folks decided to move away from tokens in favor of > straight spinlocks since they were a pain in the ass to use and there > was no public mention about this.
FWIW I adopted the token abstraction that Matt described for use in a (large) set of shell scripts and it works pretty well - also means that the rules that script authors need to learn are relatively straightforward :-) -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ "Roger Penrose can never be convinced that this sentence is true." (If he doesn't get the joke, you can at least prove that he owes you money.)
