[GRASS-dev] g.mlist sep= or fs= ?

[Paulo van Breugel]

+1 for separator

On 09/05/2012 10:09 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> me and some of my course participants (GeoSTAT 2012) stumbled over
> the change of sep= to fs= in GRASS 7.
>
> While ...
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Huidae Cho <wrote:
>>> When I first wrote the original script, I also thought about fs=.  But,
>>> you're right, there are no fields to separate, and that's why it's been
>>> separator=.
>> ok, reverted.
>>
>> Hamish
> it has become again fs=...
> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/html70_user/g.mlist.html
>
> In a quick poll in my course the people (being R savvy) all voted for
> separator=, also to keep consistency with R! (and GRASS 6 btw).
>
> I would strongly suggest to change all fs= in GRASS 7 (several modules)
> to separator= before it propagates more.
>
> Bonus: no script breakage from GRASS 6 to 7.
>
> Markus
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