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froh on Jan 16, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (20...

yup. I wonder "what if" awk had added records (dotted r.attrib notation) and namespaces. I've created sizeable awk scripts back in the day, and I missed the former dearly and the latter somewhat.

sargstuff on Jan 16, 2023 [–]

Nah, (humor observation), using system() is the only one true way to do namespaces.

The way gawk handles functional parameters can simulate records (dotted r.attrib notation)

Gawk @ additon [1] permits namespaces (include,load) and other fun syntax/sematic jit enforced separation.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Index.htm...

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