Re: [dwm] problem with dmenu3.1

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:35:47PM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
| Actually this is the case in Plan 9, and they do it right in my
| opinion. The main problem with this design in Unix is, that
| fork() is a rather expensive call with performance issues.
 
One problem with not designing test into the shell language
in a carefully designed way but rather growing out of program calling is that
you've got to do ridiculous things like

if [ X$oldt = X$newt ]; then

to properly handle the case of empty strings variables. (That's why
once I reach the level of testing conditionals in a script
I see if I can migrate to a different scripting language.)

|> But this is getting OT now...

Indeed.

cheers, dave tweed

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