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- Subject: Re: Should the interactive interpreter insert "return" in readline history?
- From: Hisham <h@...>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:43:37 -0300
On 11 March 2015 at 04:44, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-03-09 22:34 GMT+02:00 Tom N Harris <telliamed@whoopdedo.org>:
>
>> Of course I agree the 'return' keyword appearing in history is a wart. Which
>> is why I made the patch.
>
> In previous versions, the wart was present as the translation of "=",
> a minor skin blemish caused by the user's own scratching.
"caused by the user"?? I can't see how the interactive interpeter
inserting extraneous tokens to its command history is "caused by the
user".
Sometimes this list's tendency to try to "explain away" every quirk in
Lua goes too far.
-- Hisham
