Re: ncurses-5.2-20020420.patch.gz

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Mike Castle wrote:

> In article <address@hidden>,
> Thomas Dickey  <address@hidden> wrote:
> >yes - I ran into the same problem this afternoon.  gawk thinks that 'func'
> >is a reserved word.  I renamed 'func' to 'myfunc' and it compiled ok.
>
> Alrighty.  I don't feel like rebuilding right now.  I'll wait till next
> week's patch.
>
> Meanwhile, this bit from the gawk manual seems to imply that gawk wouldn't
> be the only implementation to be bit by this:
>
>    In many `awk' implementations, including `gawk', the keyword
> `function' may be abbreviated `func'.

I don't see that in Solaris' version of nawk or awk.  Actually I didn't
find that in gawk's online info - except for a comment that the -posix
option disabled this feature.

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