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

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Wed Sep 5 15:02:56 PDT 2012


On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> Something to bear in mind when choosing option names:
>
> In 7.0, the option could be called "field_separator", for which e.g.
> "fs" or "fsep" would be valid abbreviations (but not e.g. "sep" or
> "separator", as the first letter of the first word is required).

The point is that only "sep..." is keeping backwards compatibility
and R compatibility.

Markus


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