9 Jul
2018
9 Jul
'18
5:32 p.m.
On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 21:52:09 -0600 Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
It would also let the program do 'noise
words' like TOPS-20 did w/o having to actually parse them...
Noise words are a thing Unix is missing, but given the lack of
CMND JSYS style completion, the reason for the lack is obvious --
nothing generates noisewords so nothing needs to ignore them. This is
yet another cool thing clang's --complete hack could make widely
available, though then we'd need a standard for noisewords.
clang --complete is an interesting variation on my
ideas within the
realm of doing non-standard weird things and starts to place the
burden of knowledge on the program itself, which is more in line
with the thinking of Unix and the main stream of OOish thought
we've know about since the early 70s with smalltalk and other such
pioneering things.
Precisely. The clang hack is exactly what one would want if it could
be made popular.
Perry
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