On 20 Jan 1998, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> DW> IMO, tabs, while they lend some advantage to wetware readability, are
> DW> inferior to "whitespace" between fields which allows pretty printing
> DW> without destroying the basic format or parsability.
>
> Tabs have the benefit that I can guarantee that they will not appear in any
> of the fields. Thus there are no quoting considerations.
Yeah, but you only have to consider them ONCE and code them... :) Oh, and
others have already written too much code for that. Heck the CLF thing is
probably already in the web server somebody wrote in Perl.
> I'm just going to leave it as-is, and if someone later wants to make it
> more functional then, well, they can do so.
:( I am not going to give up that easy. Could you at least add the TZ and
year to the logs (I haven't looked at my ][ logs, if they exist) and if
you are talking about leaving the same format from 1.94.4?
Should I write a patch to 1.94.4 you think?
-Brian
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