Re: Problem with changed 'pipe' precedence

[Aharon Robbins]

Bob's comments are on target.  In particular his note about the tone
of the original post is correct; I didn't particularly appreciate it.
Would you say such things if you were talking to me in person? I
rather doubt it...

Arnold

> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:37:38 -0700
> From: address@hidden (Bob Proulx)
> Subject: Re: Problem with changed 'pipe' precedence
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> address@hidden wrote:
> > Recent versions of gawk (at least 3.1.4-5.3) seem to have taken
> > the considerable liberty of changing the precedence order of the
> > pipe-like operator '|' (with getline) wrt string concatentation.
>
> Please see this thread of discussion on this topic.
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-10/msg00064.html
>
> The thread was broken but continues here.
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-10/msg00086.html
>
> > Please, can somebody fix this piece of stupidity?
> > ...other similar derisive remarks deleted...
>
> Note that the tone of your message is not conducive to starting a
> productive conversation with a developer.  In the future you would be
> well advised to remember the old saying, "You catch more flies with
> honey than vineger."
>
> Bob