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

[Markus Metz]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for separator.

+1

Markus M

>
> 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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