From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
Cc: 59444@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59444: ADVICE-ON-FAILURE sed syntax error
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:17:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c25df841babeff407181@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A11B9FBE-3FF1-45EF-B2CB-900D24A0EC3B@gmail.com>
>> Again I tested this with (GNU) sed with --posix, and it gave the
>> expected result.
>
> Then what we should learn from this is that GNU sed --posix cannot be
> trusted blindly to reject non-POSIX features. This is unsurprising -- it
> can be difficult to keep all extensions from leaking past the gate.
>
Do you know of any computer program that can be trusted blindly? ;-)
>> The reason I chose the former expression instead of the latter is
>> because it's how I usually write such patterns.
>
> That doesn't answer the question. Why that roundabout way, rather than
> the simpler direct approach?
>
I write such expressions that way because with that expression only the
first matching block is printed. Which is admittedly not important in
this case, but habits being what they are...
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2022-11-21 11:51 bug#59444: ADVICE-ON-FAILURE sed syntax error Mattias Engdegård
2022-11-21 12:49 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-21 13:11 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-11-21 13:17 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
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