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

[Huidae Cho]

+1 for separator.

Yes, I'm still here. ;-)

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 10:09:40AM +0200, 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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