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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk
Subject: Re: GNU Awk's types of regular expressions
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In article <vijlu6$35un4$1@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>This isn't meant as a statement of quality of software design
>or existence of useful comments in GNU Awk. It's only so that
>last time I looked into the sources (with the intention to add
>new syntax and semantic for a feature I'd have liked) I wasn't
>able to identify how to do it without doing harm to the code;
>I'm lacking the familiarity with this source code. Of course I
>could have looked into the source code instead of posting, but
>the described experience lead me to not take that path.

You can always ask me directly.

>Re "(where I'll see it)": My post's intention was not meant to
>address/bother you personally - yet, all the more I appreciate
>your reply! In this newsgroup there's also some folks who have
>some expertise and might answer such questions.

True, but ultimately I'm authoritative. :-)

>And I'm not a "client" of the mailing list.

You don't have to be subscribed to the bug list to send messages
there.

Arnold
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