howdee,
i am not quoting any text, because this note is OffTopic-ish...
i was looking at the comments from kshe regarding a full rewrite
of the sed-utility... in particular, that there were obscure corner
cases of tests that seemed to fail due to NULL or EOL or whatnot...
apparently, sed is a Turing-complete language - and hence,
given enough time/space/memory, will surely not give a single
TRUE/FALSE answer to some questions...
to be honest, i do not understand all of the details or theory,
that are involved in the statements i _just_ made - but...
since sed is a STREAM editor, and since sed-scripts are usually
finite-length, then maybe there should be some way to enforce
a limit (like was done for string-buffers) on the inputs...
again, this is all just my pie-in-the-sky OT-commentary...
sincerely, harold.
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