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Subject: Re: Single archive and -l option bug
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 11:10:53 -0600 (CST)
To: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Cc: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <ufa67q69gwi.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu> from "Jason L Tibbitts III" at Nov 6, 97 09:33:01 am
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Jason L Tibbitts III writes: ]
> 
> >>>>> "DW" == Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@risc.sps.mot.com> writes:
> 
> DW> Bug #1 is a bit of a sticky wicket. I chose to adopt the policy that if
> DW> the -l option is specified (a default list) then a list name must *not*
> DW> be specified in the request, reasoning that requests sent to a specific
> DW> list-request alias shouldn't be specifying other lists anyway, [...]
> DW> Does anyone object vehemently to that dichotomy?
> 
> The way the Majordomo 2 parser works is that giving the -l option only sets
> the default list.  That is, it pretends that there's a "default list blah"
> at the beginning of the message. [...]
> This _would_ clear one of those parser ambiguities that some may remember
> my veins popping over.

Remind us of how you resolved the ambiguity, please, or did you leave
it as unresolved as 1.9x does? I don't have a warm fuzzy about using a
hammer on it like I did to fix the immediate problem, but wanted to get
some feedback from the developer community before advancing either that
solution or something better to the user community. After thinking about
how the new command language works in Mj2, I suspect my change would
complicate the transition.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe


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