[REBOL] Re: [AWK GREP] AWK and GREP funcs, arg order
From: anton::wilddsl::net::au at: 20-May-2007 2:09
Hi Ged,
It depends on the user.
For myself, I found the opposite, that I was often using the
same filename pattern (*.r) as a rebol developer,
and looking for different contents.
But I can certainly imagine particular contents patterns being
reused often in other usage scenarios.
Given this ambiguity, I would favour putting the higher-level
file-pattern first.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could swap the order of arguments
somehow ? eg.
rawk file-pattern contents-pattern
or
rawk swap contents-pattern file-pattern
where SWAP changes the order of the arguments to suit
RAWK's preferred order.
(Actually, we should put everything into an associative
database, then the above problems do not exist.)
Regards,
Anton.
